Health and Safety
Executive / Commission
Research reports
The number of mechanical handling incidents in the UK offshore
industry remained at an unacceptably high level towards the end of
the 1990s. Consequently HSE introduced a Key Programme of work in
2001 that aimed to reduce the number of offshore lifting and
mechanical handling accidents and dangerous occurrences by 15 %
over a three-year period.
One element of this is to increase awareness of the issues and seek
to improve and monitor the competence of personnel involved with
offshore lifting operations, especially crane operators.
Traditional training courses cannot usually provide trainee
exposure to the type of operating conditions that may give rise to
accidents if inappropriate actions are taken. With this in mind HSE
commissioned Drilling Systems (UK) Ltd to develop an integrated
training package based around a sophisticated crane simulator to
provide crane operator exposure to simulated normal and dangerous
conditions in a safe training environment. Industry partners
provided substantial technical support during the course of the
project.
(950 KB approx)The Research Report Series are produced in Adobe Acrobat. The use of the latest version of the software is recommended which is available at the Adobe website via the link on this page.
Assistance in the use of Adobe Acrobat PDF files is available on our FAQs page.