Lifting Safety
The MMS is responsible for crane safety and operations on
fixed Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) facilities. The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) is responsible for crane safety on Mobile Offshore Drilling
Units (MODUs) and floating OCS facilities. The MMS is responsible for
lifting and hoisting equipment associated with the derrick (e.g. pipe
handling operations) on fixed and floating OCS facilities, and MODUs. The MMS is also responsible for material handling operations on fixed OCS
facilities, while the USCG is responsible for these types of operations on
floating OCS facilities and MODUs.
The International Regulators Forum prepared a
report that examines
the worldwide picture on offshore lifting and mechanical lifting issues
and reviews national initiatives to share best practices in order to improve
effectiveness in regulating these risks.
(03/17/2005)
(142 KB PDF File)
This
PowerPoint presentation was given at the International
Association of Drilling Contractors' International Lifting and Mechanical
Handling Conference in April 2004, in Amsterdam.
It highlights statistics and trends for incidents, injuries, and fatalities
in the Gulf of Mexico since 1998. Also included is information
regarding actions taken by MMS, the American Petroleum Institute (API) and
industry to improve offshore lifting safety.
Presentations from 2001 Crane Safety Workshop
The proceedings
(4.60 MB PDF File) for the Crane Safety Workshop that
held in Lafayette Louisiana on March 28, 2000, are also available. These proceedings contain the
overhead slides presented by each speaker at the Workshop and a short summary of their
presentation. Please feel free to use the information presented to improve crane safety.
If you have any questions about the presentations or the overheads, please contact the
individual presenters. Telephone numbers and email addresses of the presenters and
workshop attendees can be found in the appendix.
(4712 KB)
These proceedings also contain MMS' response (called Crane
Position Paper, appendix D) to the questions that Larry Smith of Applied Hydraulics raised
on crane inspections. This response answers the questions in a general manner instead of
specifically addressing each individual question. MMS believes that this general position
statement and the referenced Potential
Incidents of Noncompliance (PINC) List and Guidelines will provide answers to
most, if not all, questions about MMS crane inspections.
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