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Dropped Object Prevention on Offshore Facilities and Installations : Guidance for Safety Professionals and Practitioners / by Alexander Arnfinn Olsen.
Springer Nature - Synthesis Collection of Technology Collection 14 (2025) Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olsen, Alexander Arnfinn.
- Series:
- Synthesis Lectures on Ocean Systems Engineering, 2692-4471
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marine engineering.
- Offshore structures.
- Security systems.
- Marine Engineering.
- Offshore Engineering.
- Security Science and Technology.
- Local Subjects:
- Marine Engineering.
- Offshore Engineering.
- Security Science and Technology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (115 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.
- Summary:
- The prevention of dropped objects is an important component of safeguarding personnel, property and the maritime environment. This concise book has been developed to provide safety professionals and practitioners with specific guidance and criteria on the development, implementation and management of dropped object prevention programs which corresponds to a growing industry-wide development to mitigate and eliminate the hazards imposed by dropped objects. This book relates to the Class requirements for an onboard dropped object prevention program to be implemented on offshore assets, and provides the design requirements for equipment primary securing, secondary retention methods and securing for specific equipment, etc. This book is intended for use by offshore installation Owners, Operators, and Companies whose intention is to prepare for, and ultimately apply for optional Class notations highlighting the installation’s compliance with dropped object safety management. For the benefit of context, the book uses the provisions which relate specifically to the DOPP and DOPP+ notations. For offshore installation managers academics as well as students in industrial design and engineering Applicable to the optional classification of dropped object prevention programmes Written by an experienced trainer.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Onboard dropped object prevention programs
- Risk assessments dropped object hazards
- Implementation of the dropped object prevention programs
- Continuous improvement
- DROP programs roles and responsibilities
- Example dropped object zoning areas
- Recommended practices for working at height
- Recommended items for inclusion when auditing the drops prevention program
- Equipment design for dropped object prevention for DOPP+ and equivalent classification
- Equipment installation and maintenance
- Conduct of drops surveys
- Procedural requirements for class recognized dropped object prevention specialists
- Sample DROPS survey report.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Olsen, Alexander Arnfinn Dropped Object Prevention on Offshore Facilities and Installations
- ISBN:
- 9783031616174
- OCLC:
- 1437678164
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