Crane Lifting Safety

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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.

MMS National Lifting Strategy (290 KB; 16 pages)

2008 Offshore Crane Operations and Safety Conference (05/05/2008)

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; 15 pages)

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:

Don Howard, "A Need for Change" (6403 KB; 26 pages)

Joe Gordon & Jack Leezy, "Regulatory Expectations, Enforcement, & Initiatives: An MMS Perspective" (551 KB; 29 pages)

The proceedings for the Crane Safety Workshop that held in Lafayette Louisiana on March 28, 2000, are also available. (Please note that the proceedings file is quite large, and takes more than one minute to load with a 56K modem connection.) 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; 212 pages)

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.

If you have questions about MMS' inspection policy, please contact Wilbon Rhome.

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