Personnel Transfer Basket
When using a worker transfer basket, be sure to use the following procedures:
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- All workers should review training videos on workers transfers as part of their offshore assignment.
- The maximum load for a workers transfer basket is 8 persons.
- No workers should be transferred in adverse weather conditions.
- Limit bags to the usual personal belongings of crew members. Do not use workers baskets to transport cargo.
- All persons should wear a Type 1 PFD.
- Persons riding the basket are to stand on the outside ring, with arms locked through the ropes, facing inward.
- Equip the workers basket with a tag line.
- Swing the basket to the side, over the water, as soon as practical when picking the basket up from the deck of a vessel. Conversely, keep the basket over the water as long as is practical when lowering the basket to the deck of a vessel.
- Persons should not be transferred using cargo nets or any other make shift basket.
- Keep basket transfers in the line of sight of the crane operator, or if this is not possible, use an experienced signalman.
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