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Healthy and Safe Transfer of Maritime Pilots Good Practice Guide Healthy and safe transfer of maritime pilots Good practice guide New Zealand Maritime Pilots Association 2018 Endorsed by 0 The NZMPA would like to acknowledge the following people for their involvement in developing this guideline: Trevor Morrison Hugh O'Neill Neil MacKean Lars Sorensen Peter Willyams Josh Osborne Christopher Davies 1 Statement of endorsement: Maritime NZ is pleased to endorse this Good Practice Guide as a tool that will contribute to improved health and safety outcomes for pilots, launch masters and crew. Maritime NZ congratulates the New Zealand Maritime Pilots Association for its proactive approach to aligning good practice across New Zealand ports. Keith Manch Director, Maritime New Zealand This endorsement expires on 31 October 2021 President’s note: Following a fall by a pilot from a ladder onto the foredeck of a pilot boat in 2016, we decided that our organisation should develop a set of Good Practice guidelines. This booklet contains the recommendations of a group of experienced NZ pilots to assist other pilots and their launch masters in making their decision to attempt a safe transfer or not. Safety is paramount in our high risk theatre of operations and should be considered ahead of any commercial or personal motivations. The association supports all pilots who decide not to transfer due to an unsafe ladder arrangement, adverse weather conditions or vessel issues. A transfer also includes the disembarkation from a vessel, when the option of being over-carried should be considered if the safety of pilot or launch crew is in doubt. NZMPA acknowledges the assistance of Maritime NZ in the editing and formatting of the First Edition of this guide and for endorsing its content. Steve Banks, President NZMPA, 8 November 2018 2 3 Contents Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 6 How to use this document .............................................................................................................. 6 How to read this document ............................................................................................................ 6 Plan .............................................................................................................................................. 7 Do ................................................................................................................................................. 7 Check ........................................................................................................................................... 7 Act ................................................................................................................................................ 7 Interpreting this document.......................................................................................................... 7 Terms and acronyms used in this document ............................................................................ 7 Learn the law ................................................................................................................................... 8 Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) .......................................................................... 8 Maritime Transport Act 1994 (MTA) .......................................................................................... 8 Maritime Rules part 19 ............................................................................................................... 8 Maritime Rules part 53 ............................................................................................................... 8 Develop policies procedures and checklists................................................................................. 8 Be fit and healthy for work ............................................................................................................. 9 Self-care checklist: ...................................................................................................................... 9 Gather information and assess the risk ...................................................................................... 10 Know the safety equipment on the pilot launch and how it works ............................................ 10 Make a plan ................................................................................................................................... 10 Approach the vessel for pilotage safely ...................................................................................... 12 Contact the master of the vessel for pilotage for information on the pilot ladder .................... 12 Visually inspect the pilot ladder ................................................................................................... 13 Wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE)........................................................... 15 Heavy weather operations ........................................................................................................... 16 Example: CentrePort working matrix .......................................................................................... 17 Use ‘dynamic risk assessment’ ................................................................................................... 18 Transfer safely: Guidance for pilots............................................................................................. 18 Stay safe on board the vessel under pilotage ............................................................................ 18 Communicate that all is well ........................................................................................................ 18 Regularly review practices ........................................................................................................... 19 When things go wrong.................................................................................................................. 19 Reporting incidents ....................................................................................................................... 19 4 Man overboard .............................................................................................................................. 20 Casualties ...................................................................................................................................... 20 Fire on the pilot launch ................................................................................................................. 20 Example: Port Taranaki pilot man-overboard exercise ............................................................. 21 Lessons learned ........................................................................................................................ 21 5 This voluntary guideline provides practical advice for maritime pilots, pilot launch masters and crew on good health and safety practices for the safe transfer of pilots between vessels. Introduction It takes many years to make a pilot but only minutes to lose one. Despite the regulatory regime and controls to hazards at New Zealand ports, incidents keep happening. The New Zealand Maritime Pilots Association (NZMPA) has developed this voluntary guideline in response to the continued incidents. Maritime NZ has endorsed this document as a tool that will contribute to improved health and safety outcomes for pilots, pilot launch masters (launch masters) and crew. How to use this document This document focuses on healthy and safe practices while transferring pilots between vessels. This document should be used as an aid to developing and implementing robust health and safety systems and culture; to effectively discharge duties under the following legislation and maritime rules: • the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 • the Maritime Transport Act 1994 • Maritime Rules Part 19 • Maritime Rules Part 53. How to read this document This document takes a health and safety management approach to good practice, and is divided into four health and safety steps: Plan Health and safety Act management Do system Check 6 Plan These tasks should be done ahead of time, when developing the health and safety system, training pilots, and in some cases, before a pilot transfer takes place. There are also things in this section that pilots, launch masters and crew should do before coming to work. Do This section contains the issues that pilots, launch masters and crew should consider during the transfer process. Check This section contains guidance on assessing the risks in an operational environment, and monitoring the conditions as they change. Act This section contains guidance on reviewing procedures and the system, and what to do when things go wrong, including reporting. There is a further section about conducting practice drills. Interpreting this document The table below shows the terms used to describe requirements in this document: Term Definition Must Describes a legal requirement to be complied with Should or content written A practice or approach that should be followed to increase as a specific direction (e.g. health and safety outcomes and reflect this guidance in health ‘make sure’ or ‘needs to’ or and safety management systems. It is not mandatory under other directive language) the law May (or can, might or Permissible practice or approach, but not mandatory under could) the law. A term sometimes used to suggest extra actions above
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