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Harley Marine Services A Full Service Marine Transportation Company October 2012 10 Safety Incentive Program Winning Safety Tips: Tip #1 By: Mike Limon, Starlight Marine Services When retrieving a headline from a ship after the job, standing under the line can be dangerous if it free-falls to the deck. The tug operator should position the bow of the boat so it is not directly under the line as it's lowered to protect the crew from it accidentally falling upon them. Tip #2 By: Doug Anderson, Starlight Marine Services To be safe during a drill and or emergency, we must know our duties and how to perform them safely. It does not matter how many people are on your crew. There are tasks that must be performed when there is an emergency. Larger crews have fewer individual responsibilities. On a smaller crew, each crewman may have more than one if not many tasks to perform. The station bill represents how a crew should react to an emergency. It ensures that essential stations are staffed and necessary equipment is brought to the scene. If we can’t figure out how to react to an emergency as safe as possible, we may make it worse. Tip #3 By: Larry McCormick, Olympic Tug & Barge Two-way Communication: Communication is one of the most important tools we use, without good communication nothing would get done right. From Dispatch to crew communication, it is all very important. When executing landings and departures, the Mates must communicate via radio to the Captain all that he sees on his side of the barge. When commands or distances are given over the radio it is critically important that both parties acknowledge that they have heard the transmission given. If nothing is heard back, they assume that it was heard or they repeat it, which at times might interfere with something that the other party is asking, which in turn could cause a command to be ‘stepped on’ and missed which could cause an incident. On the vast majority of the vessels I have ridden, it is the Captain that does not always acknowledge back to the Mates on commands they have given. Therefore, be sure to always acknowledge your Mate and it will lessen the chance of an incident. Winning Article: By: Timothy Picou, Harley Marine Gulf RUSHING ON THE JOB CAN HURT We have all been in a situation at one time or another where we were in a hurry to do our job. In the process, we didn't pay close attention to what we were doing and ended up with an injury. Hurrying on the job can cause both minor accidents and life-threatening injuries. You may hurry dozens of times and nothing happens, until it finally occurs: an accident. Have you done any of these? • Climbed a ladder with tools in your pockets or in your hand because you didn't have a tool belt? • Reached a little further on the ladder rather than get down and move it? • Not worn safety glasses because the job would only take a minute? • Removed a guard to repair your machine and not gotten around to putting it back on? • Cut the grounding prong off a three-way plug because you didn’t have an adapter? • Used a wrench instead of a hammer because your toolbox was not close? • Not unplug a power tool before making adjustments? I'm sure you can come up with a few more examples of shortcuts. Sometimes nothing happens; sometimes there is a near miss; sometimes your luck runs out and an accident happens. Practice safety everywhere. You can never be too careful. The example you set may save your life, or the life of someone you love.
Harley Marine Services Safe, Responsible, Reliable, Efficient October 2012 Olympic Spirit Makeover Before and After Shots In a continual effort to improve the quality of our marine operations and overall customer satisfaction, we recently took the Olympic Spirit out of service to perform some structural changes to improve the towing speed. BEFORE AFTER The barge is now at US Fab in Portland, Oregon completing the final phase of the bow transition. We expect to have her back online by the end of October. The pictures to the right show a very noticeable difference in bow design and depict how the barge will perform with less drag. AFTER BEFORE We look forward to welcoming the Olympic Spirit back to the fleet and commencing operations with our newly remodeled double hull barge. AFTER BEFORE 11
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