Mooring vessels safely

Mooring vessels safely to help protect seafarers from serious injury or even death is the subject of OneLearn Global’s latest maritime course.

The digital eLearning maritime training provider has added the ‘Safe Mooring Operations’ programme to its expanding portfolio of courses that cover all areas of the shipping sector.

“Statistics from the European Harbour Masters’ Committee show that ropes and wires cause 95% of all personal injuries on board, demonstrating why our new course is essential for any crewmember,” said Nigel Cleave, senior advisor at OneLearn Global.

“As a maritime training provider, our role is to develop and deliver courses that help protect the lives of seafarers – a big responsibility that we take incredibly seriously.”

Crew safety

Seafarers who take OneLearn’s six-part mooring course will be walked through an introduction to safe mooring operations, the dangers involved, deck safety and set up, mooring plans and operations and action in case of emergency.

They will learn about the most common dangers such as getting fingers or hands trapped when handling mooring ropes on warping drums and long-term injuries caused by poor posture while working with lines or other objects.

Inspecting mooring lines, putting together a robust plan that accounts for all safety issues and how constant monitoring of ropes throughout a voyage can improve seafarers’ situational awareness, also feature in the course.

While launching the new course, OneLearn Global gained STCW approval from the Bahamas Maritime Authority for four existing training programmes: Crowd Management; Crisis Management and Human Behaviour on Passenger Ship; Security Awareness Training; and Designated Security Duties Training.