- Ensure all personnel are wearing the correct PPE.
- Are all mooring gear and equipment ready for use and well maintained according to the maintenance plan?
- Check and maintain good communication at all times with bridge and obtain permission to go stations.
- Obtain power on deck.
- Ensure adequate lighting is required on mooring decks.
- An experienced winch operator must be used at all times and winches must be conditionally tended.
- Prepare winches, remove covers, put into gear and test operation.
- Unstow, wires, ropes, stoppers, fenders, heaving lines, gant lines, messengers, rat guards etc make ready for use.
- Never stand in the bight of a rope and always maintain a position of safety.
- Be aware of the dangers of back-lash if a man made fiber rope parts.
- Ensure sufficient number of men are available at each end of the vessel during mooring operations.
- Find out mooring plan from master.
- Make own plan on how to propose to achieve masters plan.
- Brief all persons about mooring plan to make sure that they fully understand it.
- Wires must not be used directly from a fixed real. It should be flaked out before use.
- Checks all roll on and fair leads for dangers and smooth operation to avoid rope damaging.
- Leads must not be too sharp, in case of wires a snatch block can be used to impose the lead.
- Never put rope and wire on same bit / lead together. Do not put eye of rope or wire on the bit.
- Put wires as per DTP approved manner.
- Two men on barrel, one handling, one coiling down.
- Never handle rope and winch control at same time.
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