http://www.san-nytt.se/english Promotes maritime work environment management Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:40:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The management of the Rosella has got to grips with the work environment onboard by holding frequent safety committee meetings and having designated safety officers. Viking Line’s full-time chief safety officer, Bent Björn-Nielsen, supports all of this. [caption id="attachment_1027" align="alignright" width="400" caption="In the summertime the Rosella is often fully booked and ... http://www.san-nytt.se/english/2010/full-time-work-environment-duties Keen safety officers are good, but knowledgeable and engaged captains are also necessary if work environment activities are to make any real progress, according to Karl-Arne Johanson at Seko Seafarers. He is pinning a lot of hopes on a new work environment course that is under development at SAN. After two ... http://www.san-nytt.se/english/2010/captain-is-key-person-for-better-work-environment [caption id="attachment_1020" align="alignright" width="400" caption="Photo: Tedd Juhlin"][/caption] Crewmembers on some coastal tonnage and smaller ships sometimes jump ashore with the mooring line when docking. – This is extremely dangerous and could end in a disaster, warns Mikael H Andersson, work environment official at the Swedish Transport Agency. Sometimes there is no mooring guard ... http://www.san-nytt.se/english/2010/risky-jumping-ashore-with-a-mooring-line What exactly is the work environment? As recently as 10 years ago many people would have listed a number of physical conditions such as noise, vibrations, chemicals and oils. These issues are of course at least as important and topical as they were 10 years ago. In recent years, however, the ... http://www.san-nytt.se/english/2010/the-parts-and-the-whole [caption id="attachment_1016" align="alignright" width="400" caption="IMO’s headquarters in London. Photo: IMO"][/caption] 2010 has been declared the Year of Seafarer by the UN safety organ IMO (International Maritime Organization). Ashok Mahapatra, manager of the section for Maritime Education and human resource issues at the IMO headquarters in London, says that the main reason ... http://www.san-nytt.se/english/2010/year-of-seafarer When a mate was loading vacuum gas oil on a cold winter evening an alarm was heard, indicating high pressure in one of the two tanks which were being filled. After the alarm had been noted, the watch seaman was sent out to check whether the pressure relief valve was ... http://www.san-nytt.se/english/2010/tank-explosion-during-loading-of-oil When the ship was refueling it became apparent that it had been overfilled and oil ran out from the starboard side. Filling was immediately stopped and all necessary measures were taken. The relevant authorities were contacted and cleaning was initiated, but despite these measures approximately 600 litres of diesel oil ... http://www.san-nytt.se/english/2010/faulty-reconstruction-lead-to-overfilling A new type of radar called broadband radar, mainly intended for leisure boats and smaller ships, has been launched on the market. This type of radar differs from traditional radar in that it transmits continuously and not in pulses. It is not compatible with radar beacons and transponders, and does ... http://www.san-nytt.se/english/2010/broadband-radar-does-not-fulfil-requirements A woman was walking along the quayside where a fishing boat was moored and heard a bang. A person in flames came out of a door in the boat. The woman shouted to the person to jump into the water, which he did. The woman then called for help from ... http://www.san-nytt.se/english/2010/explosion-onboard-led-to-burn-injuries The Swedish maritime industry has a reporting system for accidents and near accidents called Insjö/Foresea, which is specially adapted to the internal ISM system that many shipping companies must have. Insjö, which is changing its name to Foresea, relies on safety managers at shipping companies forwarding reports which are sent to ... http://www.san-nytt.se/english/2010/insjo-will-change-name-and-reward-reporters