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Safe Anchor Handling
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- DVD (VHS avail.)
Explains techniques and hazards of anchor handling procedures for offshore service vessels and crews. (Also available in Spanish)
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SCRIPT SAMPLE:
Anchor Handling is one of the most demanding and inherently dangerous tasks performed in the Marine service industry.
Long hours, bad weather, wet and muddy decks, hand and finger pinch hazards and proximity to heavy buoys and wires under strain are some of the risk factors that must be taken into consideration whenever handling anchors. Recognizing these factors is the first step to working safely.
Anchor Handling Process
Begin the anchor handling process by retrieving the anchor from the barge, also known as “Deploying the Anchor”.
The Buoy will be suspended over the side of the barge by the crane. A 20 foot cable with safety hook will hang below the headache ball.
The anchor handling vessel will back up in order that a deckhand can retrieve the buoy soft line with a boat hook.
The soft line is shackled to the pennant wire through the buoy.
The deck hand passes the soft line eye to the tugs anchor hook, and then clears the deck to a safe area.
At no time should the crane operator move the crane toward the vessel with the buoy suspended unless the tug captain or mate directs him to do so . . .
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