
Pilot Ladder Manual - Advanced
This guide details the procedures that should be followed when preparing for pilot embarkation and disembarkation. It sets risk in context through relevant excerpts from IMO regulations and findings from the 2016 IMPA Safety Survey. Photographs and diagrams effectively demonstrate good and bad practice.
This publication emphasises the importance to ship operators and seafarers of adhering to established rules when preparing for pilot embarkation and disembarkation. It covers the responsibilities of all personnel involved in pilot transfer, pilot ladder construction and securing the pilot ladder. IMPA Safety Survey findings highlight areas of preparation that are often missed, raising awareness of possible risk mitigating measures. The guide includes the complete text of IMO Resolution A.1045(27) on Pilot Transfer Arrangements.
1.
General
Responsibilities
of
all
Involved
in
Pilot
Transfer
1.1
Regulations
Applicable
to
Pilot
Transfer
Arrangements
1.2
Pilot
Boarding
Grounds
1.3
Owners
and
Ship
Management
Companies
1.4
On
Board
the
Ship
1.5
Pilotage
Services
1.6
Pilots
1.7
Pilot
Boat
Crew
2. Pilot Ladder Construction
3. Securing the Pilot Ladder
4. Access to the Deck
5. Supervision
6. Shipside Doors
7. Combination Ladders
8. Associated Equipment
9. Lighting
Annexes
- Number of Pages:
- 93
- ISBN:
- 9781856097574
- Binding Format:
- Paperback
- Book Height:
- 235 mm
- Book Width:
- 155 mm
- Weight:
- 0.2 kg
- Published Date:
- October 2017
Reviews
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This book will improve the safety of pilots from every country
Well done Kevin Vallance ! I hope everyone involved in pilotage and harbors can read this book to know better nowadays the issue of boarding and landing operations. I’ll be happy if every ship’s library has a copy of this book, available to the crew, in order to rig more safe pilot ladders. I might suggest that this book should be included in the training programs of psc and harbor authorities. Surely this book will improve the safety of pilots from every country ! (Posted on 09/11/2017)
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There was a need for this book
With a level of non compliance around 20% in the most optimistic figures, pilot transfer ops. is a too much often mistreated aspect of maritime bussines. Kevin Vallance, with his deep knowledge of the topic, realized there was a need of a document that could be used as a guidance for all involved. Not only the will to do it but also the required level of expertise, the extensive work, the right contacts, hundreds of chats, emails and photographs to select from all around the world. All of it for the enlightenment of the truth behind the non compliance and the correct procedures involved in pilot boarding & landing ops. Thanks Kevin Vallance for your commitment to pilot and pilot boat crews safety. (Posted on 18/11/2017)
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Should be required reading for all concerned
This excellent book should be required reading for all those responsible for the safety of pilot transfer arrangements. Everyone from the seafarer to the naval architect should read and understand the content. Kevin communicates his extensive knowledge in an easy to understand and concise way, navigating the reader through what can be a bewildering subject. Buy it and read it. (Posted on 20/02/2018)