Guide for Inspection & Maintenance of Cranes in Shipyards

Provides general guidelines for those involved in inspection and maintenance of cranes in shipyards, such as lifting supervisors, crane operators and crane maintenance personnel.

This Guide contains definitions, relevant regulations, descriptions on types of cranes, guidelines on inspection programme and maintenance programme, and sample formats of various types of maintenance service reports.

Guide on Lock-Out & Tag-Out Procedures for the Marine Industry

Provides some guidelines for the shipyards and marine companies to meet the requirements for implementing lock-out and tag-out procedures.

This Guide contains useful definitions, relevant regulations, duties and responsibilities of relevant personnel involved, guidelines on lock-out and tag-out procedures and devices, processes and equipment requiring such procedures, and sample formats of some necessary documents.

Guide for Safety Assessors on Hot Work Certification

Provides general guidelines for Safety Assessors to carry out their duties under the relevant regulations for hot work inspections and endorsements.

This Guide contains useful definitions, relevant regulations, duties and responsibilities of safety assessors, hot work endorsement, validity of hot work permit, other conditions to be observed by safety assessor during hot work inspection, recording of inspections, use of  combustible gas detector, and sample formats of some necessary documents.

Safety Briefing Handbook for Shipyard Supervisors

Contains key safety topics and guidelines for frontline supervisors to conduct effective safety briefings for workers under their charge.

This Guide contains guidelines for safety briefings on personal protective equipment, housekeeping, hand tools, mechanical hazards, manual lifting, Permit-to-Work system, confined space, electrical safety and falling/drowning/falling object/fire and explosion/health hazards.