Crane Assisted Personnel Transfers
When conducting crane assisted personnel transfer net devices, employees should follow these minimum lifting practices recommendations:
Personnel Basket Transfer Offshore
- Develop a written procedure for transferring workers on offshore facilities with a worker carrier.
- Conduct worker transfer training prior to going offshore.
- Conduct a pre-use inspection of the transfer basket prior to making any workers transfer.
- Ensure that cranes assigned to worker lifting duties are suitable for this purpose.
- Crane operators assigned to worker lifting duties should be certified and competent to perform this task.
- Worker carriers may not be used in weather, wind, or sea conditions that the qualified crane person considers unsafe.
- Attach a snag-resistant tag line to all worker carriers.
- Crane hooks used for worker transfers should have a positive locking latch.
- Use only approved worker carriers for lifting workers per API RP 2D.
- Do not use workers carriers as a workbasket or cargo net.
- Legibly mark workers carriers with the maximum number of passengers.
- Do not transfer luggage in the center of the workers net, so that there is no delay in getting to a safe area.
- Be careful leaning over to get bags, especially in rough seas.
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4-5. Why shouldn't luggage be transferred in the center of personnel transfer net devices?
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