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Part from Genoa a campaign for the work safety in port
Introduced video that illustrates some risks and the measures of prevention
May 20, 2011
Today to Saint George Palace, center of the Harbour Authority of Genoa, is introduced the campaign for the work safety in port "We tifiamo for your life" who leave from the port of the capital of Liguria and is devised by the RLS of site of the port of Genoa and by the Harbour Authority in collaboration with Asl and the sponsorship of the 3 soccer club Genoa jib.
Object of the campaign is those which technically are defined individual safety catches, that is helmet, gloves shoes accident-prevention and jackets and that often they have lived from the same workers as I hamper, but that they can save the life. By monday brochures will be distributed to all the harbour workers and contextually will be introduced also the video on safety, visible on the new site of the Harbour Authority to the www.porto.genova.it address in the section web tv, that they are translate and published thanks to the American OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) and NMSA (National Maritime Safety Association).
The video is first of a series that it comprises, besides the field of handling of the containers, also the varied activity of disembarkation of goods and the operations of repair and preparation of the ships. Draft of multimedia supports that the Harbour Authority uses in occasion of the course required dedicated to the workers of new assumption of the harbour enterprises and some cases of accidents with mortal outcome really happened in the ports of the United States are represented. The cases are relative to the most frequent types than incident, as for example the interaction risk man to earth/means, anticipate in two films that illustrate dynamics of two distinguished but similar events in dynamics: a worker on foot killed from a cart in phase of backward motion and a worker on foot killed from a semitowing hauled from engine during the reversal of means. The others two films in reverse refer to regarding events the maneuver of an executed semitowing with modality not corrected and without the use of the safety belt and the fall of a container from the ship on the below dock. In every film the possible measures of prevention are indicated also.
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