Making Personnel Transfer Safer
The safety of workers is the number one issue offshore. Personnel transfers to and from installations are one of the riskier activities that the offshore industry faces on a daily basis. Each method of transfer – helicopter or vessel – presents a unique set of risks. While helicopter transfers are highly regulated and monitored, the same could not be said for vessel transfer, until now.
Four key risks in vessel transfer – fall injuries, basket-to-vessel impact, lateral impact, and immersion – have been determined over the last 20 years, according to Grant Wintle of Reflex Marine. The company's Frog XT4 is the latest in vessel transfer systems that incorporates the insights gleaned from incidence data into its design.
The system was recently tested at the Sonny Carter Training Facility's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory(NBL) at the Johnson Space Center located in Houston, Texas. In this issue of Offshore Connect, Wintle andTrey Hall, commercialization manager at the NBL, discuss personnel transfer safety and demonstrate deployment of the Frog.
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