This course will equip participants with the required knowledge and skills to handle cargo safely and efficiently. The training will cover;
- Duties and responsibilities of stevedores
- Workplace Safety and Health Act
- The cargo ship
- Means of access
- Ships lifting system
- Types of hatches
- Opening and closing hatches
- Hatches – means of access, lighting, ventilation
- Nature and packing of cargo
- Types of cargo handling gears/aids and their usage
- Cargo handling symbols
- IMO dangerous goods labels, placards and marks
- Personal protective equipment
- Preparation for work
- Handling general cargo and heavy lifts
- Slinging safety
- Safety on wharf
- Lifting safely – kinetics
- Port safety rules and regulations
- PSA’s safety philosophy
- Common Lashing Gears
- Examples of Lashing Patterns
- Berthing and unberthing operations
- Practical exercise – manual lifting (kinetics)
- Practical exercise – signalling
- Practical exercise – slinging
- Fixing/removing cones, manual twistlocks and semi-auto twistlocks
- Fixing/dismantling turnbuckle/bar and chain lashing
- Fixing/infixing bridge fittings
- Coning/deconing at wharfside
- Use of safety harness
