Safety In Maintaining Or Replacing The Belts And Braces

Two engineers on board a moored cargo vessel were performing routine planned maintenance to a deck air compressor (Figure 1).

The engineers met in the machinery control room, prepared a risk assessment for the work, and isolated the power to the compressor in line with the company’s lock-out/tag-out (LOTO) procedures, According to MAIB Safety Digest.

After completing the maintenance, but before replacing the v-belt guards, the engineers switched the power back on to test the...

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