{"id":2505,"date":"2013-12-18T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimejournal.nfdtesting.uk\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2013\/12\/18\/norsok-standards-raise-safety-bar\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:30:10","slug":"norsok-standards-raise-safety-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2013\/12\/18\/norsok-standards-raise-safety-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"NORSOK standards raise safety bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NORSOK regulations apply to davits and lifting appliances used on offshore installations and specify many new design features and safety systems.<\/p>\n<p>Vestdavit has invested heavily to ensure its davits comply with NORSOK standards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not just NORSOK, which is Norway specific, says Rolf Andreas Wigand, Vestdavit managing director. \u201cIn US waters API 2 will apply and it has many of the same requirements. These new standards are driving operators to raise the safety bar, and they are coming to us with new orders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A leading Korean shipyard building a unit for the Norwegian sector of the North Sea for a major operator is the latest to contract a six tonne SWL NORSOK R002 davit from Vestdavit. The PLR-6000 pivoting A-frame davit includes all mandatory safety features. The HPU, valves, control systems, electronics cabinets and back-up accumulators are all mounted on a separate skid. The system will be fully FAT tested with DNV verification prior to delivery. This will greatly simplify yard installation, saving time and cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although new regulations for davits used in the Norwegian offshore industry will not come into force until 2015 they are already raising the safety bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accessories-equipment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}