Cargo Handling Skills For Conventional Operations - Port Operations

Course details

Personnel who are required to handle break-bulk cargo on board ships or on wharves and who are required to lash/unlash containers at local conventional terminals.

OBJECTIVE

At the end of the course, participants will be equipped with the required knowledge and skills to handle cargo safely and efficiently

COVERAGE

• Duties and responsibilities of stevedores
• Workplace Safety and Health Act
• The cargo ship
• Means of access
• Ships lifting system
• Types of hatches
• Opening and closing hatches
• Hatches – means of access, lighting, ventilation
• Nature and packing of cargo
• Types of cargo handling gears/aids and their usage
• Cargo handling symbols
• IMO dangerous goods labels, placards and marks
• Personal protective equipment
• Preparation for work
• Handling general cargo and heavy lifts
• Slinging safety
• Safety on wharf
• Lifting safely – kinetics
• Port safety rules and regulations
• PSA’s safety philosophy
• Common Lashing Gears
• Examples of Lashing Patterns
• Berthing and unberthing operations
• Practical exercise – manual lifting (kinetics)
• Practical exercise – signalling
• Practical exercise – slinging
• Fixing/removing cones, manual twistlocks and semi-auto twistlocks
• Fixing/dismantling turnbuckle/bar and chain lashing
• Fixing/infixing bridge fittings
• Coning/deconing at wharfside
• Use of safety harness

NOTE / REMARKS

Subject to a minimum class size of 12 participants.

REQUIREMENTS

Be at least 16 years old. A medical certificate of physical fitness is required for those aged 60 years old and above.

FUNDING

This course is approved for funding under the Skills Development Fund (SDF)

Medium of Instruction

ENGLISH