NIWA Safe Marine Transfer Workshop
On 18th Sept 2024, a workshop was held at Shell House, Perth hosted by the Nautical Institute Western Australia Branch with kind support and sponsorship by Shell Australia.
The workshop was a planned event where we had keynote speakers for the below topics and invited key members and industry SMEs to participate in a live workshop to complete a suitability assessment into best practice methods for the safe transfer of personnel in the marine environment. The session commenced with a safety moment presentation by Capt. Savio Fernandes (Harbour Master for Fremantle pilots), where he went through a recent pilot ladder incident and the lessons learnt.
Topics that were assessed in the workshop were:
- Pilot ladder
- W2W (Dynamic Gangway)
- Helicopter transfer (Deck Landing)
- Helicopter Winching
- Jetpacks
Once all the data had been collated we compiled the results in the below table and same captured in the Assessment Document (see below).
The recommendations from the assessment are as per below:
- It is evident that a combination pilot ladder arrangement is the most / highest utilised method of safe transfer of personnel.
- A consensus was reached to further investigate both helicopter winching and walk to work dynamic gangway concepts as alternatives.
- More work is required to strengthen current known industry research and concept feasibility of these two alternatives.
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