On September 15^th, Reflex Marine Ltd teamed up with the UK HSE and Sparrows Offshore Services to give their second successful seminar on crane transfers and safely moving people offshore.

This year the seminar topics incorporated audience’s ideas from last year’s seminar and touched upon current industry issues such as evacuation options and emergency response and the use of crane transfers in this scenario.

The seminar gave:

• An update on new legislative guidelines by the UK HSE
• A risk management perspective on personnel transfers
• An overview of crane compliance
• A review of common North Sea issues
• Discussions on the role of crane transfers in the role of evacuations/emergency response planning by UK HSE
• First-hand experience on a crane simulator and with a full scale offshore crane

The seminar contained a mixture of both theory and practical demonstration. During the afternoon delegates were invited to Sparrows north-east training facility and were given a first-hand demonstration of Reflex Marine’s Frog capsule as a crane transfer option.

The slideshow above contains photographs taken from this year's successful event that took place on 15th September 2008.  Please follow this link to find out more about last year's event and its outcomes.

The presentations given by UK HSE, Sparrows Offshore Services and Reflex Marine are available for download below.