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Deck Seamanship Safety
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Learning Objectives

• Know the general dangers involved with shipboard
  deck evolutions.
• Explain the role of Officers as safety observers
  during deck evolutions.
• Know the terms and nomenclature of shipboard deck
  equipment and fittings.

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Learning Objectives

• Know responsibilities and safety precautions
  relative to small boat operations.
• Know the importance of "common sense" in
  identifying general deck safety hazards.

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Fundamental Philosophy of Deck Seamanship

• A ship is an industrial environment and it is a
  dangerous place to work.
• It can be made safe by
• Taking care
• Using common sense
• Not hurrying

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Where officers fit into the picture

• Most junior enlisted sailors feel that they are
  immune from danger.
• It is the senior (not old!) personnel who must
  ensure that they don't find out how wrong they
  are!
• The safety officer must resist the temptation to
  get involved in the activities.
• Allow the Boatswains mate to do the job/run the
  evolution, he/she is the expert!

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Personal Protective Equipment

• Nearly 2 million people are expected to receive
  disabling work related injuries this year.
• More than ¼ of these injuries will involve the
  head eyes hands or feet.
• PPE can prevent many of these injuries.

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Personal Protective Gear

• Hard Hats
• Whenever work is going on, a hard hat should be
  worn.
• It won't protect against a falling truck, but it
  will keep a wrench from knocking a person out
  when it is dropped from above.
• White is the hard hat color worn by officers and
  other safety/supervisory personnel

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Personal Protective Gear

• Loose Clothing
• Anytime work is being done around rotating
  machinery, or any moving system, loose clothing
  becomes dangerous.

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Personal Protective Gear

• Flotation Devices
• Life jackets and other personal flotation devices
  should be worn when common sense dictates.
• On the flight deck, or during combat conditions,
  where a kapok-type life preserver is too bulky,
  other means (CO2 inflatable preservers) are
  substituted.

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Purple (nickname - Grapes)

• Aviation Fuels

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Blue

• Plane handlers
• Elevator operators
• Tractor drivers
• Messengers
• Phone Talkers

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Green

• Cat and Arresting gear
• Wing Maintenance
• Wing Quality Control
• Cargo Handlers
• Ground Support Personnel
• Hook Runners
• Photo Mates
• Helo L.S.E.

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Yellow

• Aircraft Handling Officer
• Cat and Arresting Gear Officer
• Plane Director

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Red

• Ordnance
• Crash and Salvage
• Explosives Ordnance Disposal (E.O.D.)

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Brown

• Air Wing Plane Captains
• Leading Petty Officers
• (LPOs)

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White

• Squad Plane Inspectors
• Landing Signal Off.
• (LSO)
• Air Transfer Officer
• (ATO)
• Liquid Oxygen (LOX) Crews
• Safety
• Medical

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Ground tackle, Anchoring, and Mooring

• The number one safety rule
• Never stand in the bight of a line or cable!
• Pre-brief

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Anchoring

• Letting go of the anchor should be done slowly
  and with great control
• but if the anchor is "free falling" out of
  control and one of these shots appears, get out
  of the way!
• With ground tackle and anchoring, a yellow "shot"
  of anchor chain is a warning, and a red "shot" is
  danger.

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Mooring

• When mooring, ensure that all line handlers are
  in safe zones when working tensioned lines.
• Keep an eye on the tattletales and on the general
  motion of the ship.
• Personnel on the bridge are more concerned about
  maneuvering and positioning the ship, and it is
  easy to loose the big picture regarding lines.

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Cargo Handling and UNREP

• Safety is an issue anytime weight is being
  handled, especially during cargo onloads or
  offloads and during UNREPs.
• The following general precautions must be
  followed
• Pre-Brief
• Training

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Cargo Handling and UNREP

• Stand clear of the load. Never get between a
  load and the ship.
• It is amazing how many people think they can get
  on one side of a 5 ton load and push it into
  position.
• Do not allow someone to get trapped between the
  load and a bulkhead.

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Rope vs. Line

• Ropes
• Manufactured from wire, fiber, or a combination
  of the two.
• Lines
• Fiber rope
• Natural cotton, hemp
• Synthetic nylon, polyester, polypropylene,
  polyethylene

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Working with lines and rope

• Gloves
• When working with wire rope, a person must wear
  gloves. There are many "fishhooks" (fragments of
  wire) that can cut a hand, and the grease that
  covers most rope is not good for an open cut.

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Working with lines and rope

• Gloves
• When handling line, however, a person should
  generally not wear gloves (avoids getting caught
  in lay of line)
• Keep hands at least 18 inches from a bit,
  pad-eye, or snatch block.

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Working with lines and rope

• Parting
• Wire ropes part just like lines do, and care
  should be taken not to rush evolutions that
  involve wire rope.
• Although it doesn't tend to snap back like
  synthetic line, a parting rope or line is
  dangerous.

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Working with lines and rope

• Deterioration
• The biggest danger with natural fiber lines is
  rotting.
• That is the advantage of synthetic fiber lines
  even though they "snap back" when parted.

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Synthetic Line Snapback

• Synthetic lines, when parted, react like a
  rubber band. Always keep this in mind when
  working with synthetic line. Stand in safe
  zones.
• Pay attention to "tattletales" which will part
  before the line they are spliced into parts.

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Life lines, life rails, and safety chains

• Life lines
• Flexible lines rigged between stanchions to
  prevent falls (note not to lean on).
• Life rails
• Permanent rails set up to prevent falls.
• Safety Chains
• Are rigged around an open hatch in a deck.
• They prevent people from falling where a
  permanent fixture is not possible.

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Flight Deck Safety

• Stand Clear of the Foul Lines!!!

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Flight Deck Safety

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vHHUyWw17ihQ
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vzGLj9OzxozI
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v3BYrliHAGn4
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vxTqejwFJFS0
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vEoHd5LePyVc

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Conclusion

• Common sense is the name of the game. If it
  looks wrong, it probably is.
• Thorough training and briefing will pay off in
  the long run.
• Doing the job correctly usually means doing it
  slowly.

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The number of accidents in the fleet today is
surprisingly low considering the type of work
done. It is up to the officer to keep it that way
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Dont try this at home

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vaRJbp1Uz64s