Topic 1: Occupational Health and Safety Management in Marine Industry
Marine industry plays a crucial part in the global economic development. Shipyards provide the service of building, conversion and maintenance of the ships. It is also linked to many other sectors which include transportation, energy, research, environment and military. Globalisation and the rapid expansion of Asian economies increase the demand for shipping service and energy consumption. This also supported the demands for construction of bulkers, tanker, container ships and gas carries in marine industry.
Shipbuilding industry is the heavy industry which associated with high risk activities. Based on Workplace Safety and Health Report 2020 (MOM, Singapore), marine industry is the sector with highest Workplace Fatal Injury Rate (FIR) since Y2016 to Y2020. In order to reduce the risk in marine industry, an effective and robust safety management system shall be in placed and integrated with the business.
Safety management system is organization-wide approach to provide an effective risk based decision making for dally business functions. It is a structure process that obligates company to manage the core business processes with same level of priority for safety management system. ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) is the world’s first International OH&S Standard. This standard is applicable for any organization to establish and implement the OH&S management system to eliminate hazards and manage the OH&S risks associated with the shipyard’s activities. Shipbuilding for tanker and offshore production vessel also refers to International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP) safety standard as a guideline to improve the safety performance. Both safety standards aim to reduce workplace risks and enhance health and well-being at work, enabling an organization to proactively improve its OH&S performance.
Speaker: Mr. Wong Kok Keen
Mr. Wong Kok Keen is the HSE Lead for MISC Offshore (Singapore) in China Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) Construction Project. He has over 9 years experience in Marine Shipbuilding Industry and Process Construction and Maintenance (PCM) Industry. During his service in Sembcorp Marine, he has leaded his team to setup, implement and monitor the HSE management system for ship repair and shipbuilding. He also assists the company to achieve the certification of ISO 14001 and successfully migrated OHSAS 18001 to ISO 45001. He has experienced in establish and execute safety management system in PCM project.
Topic 2: Why Aspirating Smoke Detection (ASD) Is Better Than Conventional Spot Detectors
Aspirating Smoke Detection (ASD) is a very early warning smoke detection solution that provides the earliest possible warning of an impending fire hazard as compared to traditional spot type smoke detector. It buys time to investigate an alarm and initiate an appropriate response to prevent injury, property damage or business disruption.
From mission critical facilities where business continuity is paramount, to challenging environments where smoke is difficult to detect due to air flows, ASD’s widest sensitivity range and multi-level alarms can be used to trigger different responses at different stages of a fire and allows maximum time for evacuation. When aesthetic, unobtrusive detection and ease of maintenance are required, ASD’s unique flexible sampling pipe capabilities provide superior performance over conventional spot detection, making it ideally suited to almost every application and building condition. Lastly ASD’s reliable early warning provides precious time to investigate a fire threat and avoid unnecessary suppression release, which can be costly and difficult to clean.
Speaker: Mr. Derrick Wong
Mr. Derrick Wong is Field Application Engineering Leader for Xtralis Advanced Detection, part of Honeywell Building Technologies. He has over 30 years’ experience in Fire Detection industry, working in various roles such as Fire Alarm System designer, Project Management and Service & Maintenance. During his 17 years at Xtralis, he has engaged with different stakeholders involving proposal, engineering specification, performance-based design, installation, testing and commissioning, product training of VESDA ASD system in the APAC region. His project experience spreads across a wide array of sectors and applications, such as Cleanrooms, Datacenter, Power Generation Plants, Logistics and Warehouses, to Commercial Industrial sectors.