TRAINING, TRAINING AND MORE TRAINING...

The month of October could be very well termed as a month of inspections and trainings as we received a number of overseas guests visiting our offices and also our training institute SIMS, Mumbai.

While some of the trainings were conducted by the trainers from BP, one of the main events of the month was indeed the three day course on Framo Cargo pump by the manufacturers Frank Mohn AS, Norway, which was attended by some of the veterans of the field along with our own crew and faculty members. The list of the participants who had successfully completed the course has been included in page 3.

We have indeed received voluminous accolades for this unprecedented training institute in India with facilities unbeatable anywhere in the world. 

However, we consider it just a by-product of our sincere intention to provide the best training possible to our crew so that each and every ESM crew boarding a vessel is fully equipped with the necessary knowledge to handle the job ahead on board from day one.

Keeping in view the same principle of more and continuous training for all of us in this organisation, two of our seniors from ESM, Singapore,Capt. Arun Sundaram, head of our  

     
FRAMO HANDS ON TRAINING SESSION

 Quality, Insurance and Training department and Mr. S.P. Singh, Deputy general manager ,Technical have just completed three days of training course on "Oil Spill Management and Emergency Response course" conducted by the BP Shipping Limited at London from October 29 to 31, 2003.
Indeed, we need to be trained to train ourselves!

Safety Moment-Nov
Courses in SIMS-NOV

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SAFETY MOMENT   - NOVEMBER 2003
A fire occured in the generator room while the vessel was at sea, depriving the vessel of all but emergency auxiliary power supplies. The crew fought the fire by using the vessel's fixed Halon installation and dry powder apparatus. The fire was extinguished in less than one hour. There were no injuries but due to the fire, the vessel lost her main propulsion power and had to be towed to port. The entire starboard side of the auxiliary engine room including three auxiliary generators were completely damaged. The most probable cause was found to be that a thermometer pocket on the lubricating oil inlet to one of the auxiliary engines had come loose and fallen off. This resulted in the lubricating oil spraying on to the exhaust manifold of the adjacent running auxiliary engine and igniting.

Lessons learned :

1. Joints and fittings for e.g.. pressure gauges, thermometers and thermometer pockets should be checked at regular intervals to ensure they are tight and secured.

3. Regular fire drills following prepared safety plan procedures and a well maintained and clean engine room all contribute significantly to a quick extinguishing of a fire.