ICHCA INTERNATIONAL ICHCA INTERNATIONAL presents TT CLUB INNOVATION IN SAFETY AWARD 2016 A digest of entries received & winners announced #makeitsafe www.ichca.com | ICHCA International #makeitsafe CONTENTS 1 Foreword 4 2 About the TT Club Innovation in Safety Award 5 3 Winner 6 4 Highly Commended 9 5 Entries 11 6 About the TT Club 32 7 About ICHCA International 33 ICHCA International Ltd www.ichca.com Secretariat Office: Suite 5, Meridian House, https://twitter.com/ICHCA2 62 Station Road, London E4 7BA, UK www.linkedin.com/company/ichca-international Tel +44 (0)20 3327 0576 | Email [email protected] https://www.facebook.com/ICHCAInternational © All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or copied without ICHCA’s prior written consent. Disclaimer: ICHCA prepares its publications according to the information available at the time of publication. This report does not constitute professional advice or endorsement. All images have been supplied by the entrants. ICHCA INTERNATIONAL PREMIUM MEMBERS TT CLUB INNOVATION IN SAFETY AWARD 2016 3 ICHCA International | www.ichca.com www.ichca.com | ICHCA International 1 | FOREWORD 2 | ABOUT THE SAFETY AWARD Promoting safety and good practice through TT Club believes that safety is fundamentally as The TT Club Innovation in Safety Award was and examples of ‘on-the-ground’ innovation to collaboration and sharing is at the heart of TT Club’s much about protecting and enhancing sustainable presented by ICHCA International in 2016 to influence safety culture, behaviour and processes mutual ethos. As a result, TT Club was delighted to business as about saving lives. While a ‘winner’ and highlight the importance of safety at a time of positively. The standard of entries was overall partner with ICHCA International to launch the TT ‘highly commended’ were ultimately chosen, TT increased operational demands on cargo handling extremely high and the judges were impressed by Club Innovation in Safety Award, which forms part Club and the other judges heartily commend each infrastructure and operations worldwide. Our goal the thought and time that had gone into many of of the ongoing ICHCA International and TT Club entry and trust that others may benefit from the was equally to champion and celebrate the many the applications. It is clear that a passion for safety #makeitsafe campaign. sharing of this digest. companies and individuals around the world who is prevalent, which is very encouraging. are 100% dedicated to ‘making it safe’ every day, It was a genuinely difficult task to evaluate the and to acknowledge and foster innovation to As detailed on the following pages, entries covered entries for this first Award. The judges were seeking improve safety in cargo operations and logistics. technologies, processes, systems and approaches something that had a proven record of improving to deal with a variety of safety topics, at sea and on safety, was original in its approach, conception and Peregrine Storrs-Fox Both ICHCA International and TT Club, the Award land, including: implementation, and was transferable between Risk Management Director Sponsor and a Premium Member of ICHCA, have operations globally, whether small or large. What TT Club a fundamental commitment to risk reduction Incident data gathering and analysis is presented here demonstrates breadth and depth • throughout the supply chain industry and, through the industry, responding to a diverse • Collision detection and prevention in particular, to safety within cargo handling range of issues. What was most clear overall was a • Container lashing and securing operations. This is paramount to the philosophy of widespread passion to improve safety and efficiency. • Container weight and load eccentricity the two organisations and the Award reflects this commitment. detection • Dangerous goods declaration and compliance The 2016 Award was open to anyone – an individual, • Equipment maintenance team or company – involved in cargo logistics. • Fire/smoke detection Entrants were required to show that a product, idea, • Packing of containerised dangerous goods and solution, process, scheme or other innovation had heavy project cargoes resulted in a demonstrable improvement to safety. • Port personnel safety • Working at height Empirical evidence or corroborative support was required to illustrate that the entry enhanced safety in a defined situation or provided a solution The winner of the TT Club Innovation in Safety Award to a defined issue. Among other criteria, the judging 2016 was announced at the ICHCA International panel was looking for originality and the possibility Conference in Barcelona in March 2016 and awarded for applications in wider industry circumstances. by Kitack Lim, Secretary-General of the IMO. Applications were received from a wide range In 2017, the award will be presented in October to of industry stakeholders, including individuals, coincide with ICHCA’s 65th Anniversary Conference companies and teams. The geographic scope of in Las Palmas. entries was also diverse, including Africa, Australia, North and Southern Europe, Indian Sub-Continent, Middle East, South America and South East Asia. If you would like to enter the awards in 2017, please Entries covered both new technology developments contact [email protected] for more details. 4 TT CLUB INNOVATION IN SAFETY AWARD 2016 TT CLUB INNOVATION IN SAFETY AWARD 2016 5 ICHCA International | www.ichca.com www.ichca.com | ICHCA International From left to right: 3 | AND THE WINNER IS... Eduardo Autelli (vendor, CAE SISTEMAS), Miriam Arcuri (vendor, CAE SISTEMAS), Aluhe Autelli APM TERMINALS BUENOS AIRES (vendor, CAE SISTEMAS), Juan Pablo Lloret FOR THE MOBILE PORT EQUIPMENT (HSSE supervisor APM Terminals), Javier C. Daffada (HSSE Manager SAFETY LOGGING SYSTEM APM Terminals), Roberto O. Diaz (HSSE supervisor APMT Buenos Aires APM Terminals) was the winner of the TT Club Innovation in The solution No man on cabin. The Buenos Safety Award 2016, The team went back to the design table, with the Aires team also observed for its mobile port help of a developer who was already working with several operators who stepped down from their the terminal on a GPS tracking device for CHEs, and equipment Safety equipment but left engines running while the designed a system with the following capabilities: vehicle was unattended. If this happens now, the Logging System. This equipment will shut down automatically after 10 innovation produced Live GPS positioning for all equipment, including seconds. measurable proven but not limited to RTGs, reach stackers (full and results in incident empty), forklifts, pickups and internal buses. Use of seatbelt. This was of course the primary reduction and objective. However, as the project moved forward the APMT Buenos Aires team noticed that many behavioural responses An ID Touch key with selective logging system for operators were bypassing the system, or simply not from the workforce. each previously authorised operator. In order to be authorised, drivers first need to take an official logging onto it at all. The company therefore made training course and be certified. Operatives might the following enhancements: The problem get certification for a forklift but maybe not for a Back in 2012, APM Terminals started to roll out its Javier Daffada, Health Safety and Environment Manager • The equipment will not start if the driver is reach stacker, for instance, so the touch key only ‘Global Minimum Requirements’, part of which at APM Terminals Buenos Aires, accepts the 1st ICHCA not logged on allows them to work on that specific equipment. required the mandatory use of seatbelts in all cargo International TT Club Innovation in Safety Award • An alarm will sound if the seatbelt is not handling equipment (CHE) such as forklifts, reach from IMO Secretary General Kitack Lim at the ICHCA used and the equipment then turns off stackers, RTGs and mobile harbour cranes. International Conference 2016, introduced by Peregrine Speed tracking. With the GPS APMT set the automatically Storrs-Fox, Risk Management Director at TT Club max speed inside the terminal at 30km/h and • If the seatbelt is activated before the seat 100km/h outside for pickups, whenever a vehicle As the HSE team at APM Terminals Buenos Aires sensor is activated this means it has been The HSE team looked into the option of installing a or equipment exceeds this limit, an alarm sounds started to look at enforcing this and other bypassed. In this case, the CHE will not start system capable of controlling the use of seatbelts. inside the cabin until the speed is reduced. requirements (35 in total), it became very clear that and an alarm will sound CHE operators at the facility commonly displayed a But the challenge here was that the system lack of awareness for their own safety. With mobile would be easy to bypass and difficult to enforce, Real time tracking. The technical department was APMT Buenos Aires also observed that many equipment constantly working across the eight especially as any operative could drive any reach having trouble getting this information so the decision technicians were bypassing the wiring so that they acres of the terminal, enforcing the new global stacker (for example) since they all come with the was taken to provide this technology on all equipment could disable the alarms. The company therefore requirements meant setting up a constant patrol to same starting key. to enhance preventive maintenance. created a specific high visibility light to ensure all check on driver behaviour. equipment can be seen to be working properly 6 TT CLUB INNOVATION IN SAFETY AWARD 2016 TT CLUB INNOVATION IN SAFETY AWARD 2016 7 ICHCA International | www.ichca.com www.ichca.com | ICHCA International APM Terminals Buenos Aires is a container and multipurpose facility handling cargo such as machinery, steel pipes, steel plates, heavy lifts, fruit, paper, livestock, bulk and project cargo 4 | HIGHLY COMMENDED ANDREW RYAN AS NOMINATED BY ASCIANO FOR THE RYAN KEY Entries for the TT Club Innovation in Safety Award were numerous and varied, and the judges were pleased also to award a Highly Commended prize to either at a certain distance or with the CCTV system.