Heavy Transport & Lifting Masterclass Workshop

Best Practices in Handling Heavy Lifts Safely      

December 11-12, 2013

Meluha The Fern Hotel, Mumbai, India

To register for this workshop, please click here.

Meet the Instructor:  Richard Krabbendam, a heavy lift specialist on land and offshore, is a globally renowned trainer and has 37 years of experience in this field. Richard Krabbendam is the founder of Krabbendam Advisory Service and has been a heavy lift specialist with Jumbo Offshore for many years. A Master of Mechanical Engineering from Delft University of Technology, he has worked with Big Lift and Mammoet and was co-founder of ITREC.

Krabbendam’s 2-Day Masterclass will aid intermediate to advanced students on the following topics:

• Building a Liftplan
• Choosing the right crane
• Using a tail crane
• Selecting the right Platformtrailer or SPMT
• Estimating forces in lifting sling
• Calculating the average groundload under an SPMT or Hydraulic Platform trailer
• Avoiding Accidents and Improving Safety
• Calculating the Center of Gravity properly
• Selecting the right spreader beam
• Calculating saddle loads
• Trailer Stability Guidelines
• Staying in Control of Weights
• Plus much more…

Included:

• Workshop printed presentation materials
• Certificate of Achievement
• Morning coffee, Lunch, Beverages

 

Day One Agenda – December 11, 2013

8:00-9:00 Registration + Coffee

9:00-10:00 1. General Knowledge and Introduction (12 slides)
• An overview is given of various Transport & Lifting equipment, suited for each particular job, such as semitrailers, lowloaders, hydraulic platform trailers, SPMT’s, crawler cranes, telescopic cranes, air bags, skidding and jacking equipment, air pallets, illustrated with video footage of actual applications

10:00-10:15 Coffee Break

10:15-11:15 2. Forces, Mass and Center of Gravity (29 slides)
• The key of handling heavy lifts safely is how to learn to control the forces acting on a heavy load.
• What is the difference between a force and a mass.
• Why do we use the Newton and what is a mass. What is a Centre of Gravity. How do we compose forces
and what motions are vessels subjected to.
• Various short vidveo films are shown how forces are not controlled correctly
• What is a windload and how can it cause serious accidents. Video footage is shown of windforce accidents
• What is the ratio between weight and volume of certain cargo types.
• What is a Freigtton. What is the min. break load, Safe Working Load and Work Load Limit etc.
• What is essential information for Transport & Lifting Projects

11:15-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-12:30 3. Heavy Transport with Hydraulic Platform Trailers (50 slides)
• In detail the working principles of hydraulic platform trailers is explained, conventional hydraulic platform
trailers (3 m wide) as well as the SPMT’s (Self Propelled Modular Transporters, 2.43 m wide).
• What is the stability of a transport combination and what are the working limits. What suspension system do
we select for which application. How can we avoid tipping over of a transport combination.
• The Specification of Conventional platform trailers and Specification of Self Propelled Modular Transporter
(SPMT) are discussed in detail and examples of trailer selection are shown and actively involve the
participants

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:45:  Continue
•Continue with Calculating the average ground pressure and steering principle of conventional
platform trailers as well as SPMT’s
• How can we calculate the necessary pulling force of a transport combination and what force can a Heavy
Duty tractor unit develop? Various case studies and videos are presented.

2:45-3:00 Coffee Break

3:00-4:00 4. Lifting of Loads with One, Two or More Cranes Part 1 (44 slides)
• How can we learn to estimate the crane type needed for as particular job, without having a capacity chart at
hand. What is a loadmoment and why is this so important in selecting the right crane for the job.
• How do we set up a Liftplan (work drawing: side-view, top-view, back-view) and how can a boom clearance
spread sheet help us in calculating the clearance between a boom and load.
• A Video film of the erection of a 320 tons reactor is shown and the liftplan is discussed in detail
• How do we apply the Moment equation in the field and how does this relate to the CoG.

4:00-4:15 Coffee Break

4:15-5:00  Golden Rules
• The 10 Golden rules for Lifting a Load are discussed and the method is explained how a large pressure
vessel can be lifted safely with two main lift cranes and one tail crane, using a measuring device, which
controls all three cranes.
• Lifting loads with one, two or more cranes and how it can be done safely are presented, as well as the effect
when the liftpoints and support points are not the same.
• Mobile Crane Hand signals and the decrease of the Tail crane and distribution of load between tail crane
and main lift crane can be calculated. A sling Plan and forces in lifting slings can easily be estimated when
you know how.
• Various types of spreader and lifting beams are presented and how the forces act on those beams.
• What is the Stability of a crane

Day Two Agenda – December 12, 2013

8:00-8:30 Coffee

8:30-10:15 4. Lifting of Loads with One, Two or More Cranes Part 2 (19 slides)
• Stability of a load to be lifted
• Lifting a heavy reactor with two cranes
• Use of lifting- and spreader beams
• Loading of lifting points
• Lifting a column into vertical position with two main lift cranes and one tail crane
• The inclino meter
• Detail of a load spreading mat
• Safety Factors
• Applying slings to a load
• Videos illustrating various lifting projects
• Summary

10:15-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-10:50 5. Maintenance and Inspection (11 slides)
• Inspection criteria for Mobile Cranes
• Maintain, Inspect, Check and Test
• Inspection criteria for Lifting Equipment
• Excessive wear on Crane sheaves
• Maintenance recommendations for transport equipment
• Safety Factors
• Applying slings to a load
• Work factors for steel slings
• Work factors for fibre slings
• Indentification of CE Marks

10:50-11:15 6. Skidding & Jacking Techniques (40 slides)
• Various Skidding & Moving techniques
• Skidding Techniques
• Stainless Steel on PTFE Blocks
• Various skidshoe systems
• Load-out of 9,500 tons Utility Module on Skids
• Load-out of 2,100 Tons AB Deck with 12 skidshoes
• Using Strand jacks as lifting devices
• ALE’s Super Crane SK-90 using strand jacks
• Jacking Methods
• ALE’s Mega Jacking systems (up to 40,000 tons)
• Examples of Load-outs using SPMT’s and strand jacks

11:15-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-11:50  Equipment Continued
•SPMT’s and Conventional Platform trailers
• Ro-Ro ramps or steel plates
• Axle suspension limitations
• Using Rollers
• SPMT’s can be mobilized on Flat racks
• Airbags, Water skates, Steel pipes
• Video Footage to illustrate these techniques

11:50-12:10 7. Set Up of a Project Planning (8 slides)
• Making a Project Planning
• What is a “Bar Chart” planning schedule
• Submission of tasks in a Planning program
• Example: Lifting a 320 Tons reactor
• Example: Lifting an traffic gantry over a Highway
• Critical path in a Planning Schedule
• Another example

12:10-12:30 8. Preparation of a Cost Estimate (9 Slides)
• Why a Cost estimate
• Essential to cost estimates
• Make a Liftplan and know what is needed
• On basis of a Liftplan make a Planning Schedule
• Prepare cost estimate on basis of Planning Schedule
• Example of Cost estimate
• Recommendations

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:30 9. Load-outs of Extreme Heavy Lifts (32 slides)
• Various Ro-Ro operations
• Necessary information for RoRo operation
• Something about Tide Tables and Tides
• Make use of the tidal conditions
• Roll-on to free floating barge (Tidal)
• Roll-on to free floating barge (Non Tidal)
• Roll-on via steel plates (Non Tidal)
• Roll-on to barge fixed aground14:45 Coffee Break
• Beach landing, barge fixed aground
• Examples of a beachlanding
• Positioning of SPMT’s under the load
• Technical data of SPMT’s
• Configure right Transport Combination
• Transport beams, Supports & Seafastening combined
• Load-out of 12,800 Tons Module
• Load-out of Special Structures
• Site Moves of Heavy Loads
• Shipyard Transporters
• Moving Modules
• Load diagrams of Platform trailers
• Moving various Heavy Loads
• Recommendations

2:30-2:45 Coffee Break

2:45-3:45 10. Safety and Risk Analysis (60 slides)
• History of Jumbo’s Safety Policy
• Part of QHSE Policy Statement
• Slips and Falls cause the majority of injuries on board ship
• What is right and what is wrong in these pictures: ” SPOT THE DANGER”
• Excessive noise can damage your hearing
• Accidents still happen
• Safety Improvement Program
• Safety: Culture, Planning, Procedures
• Safety Awareness: Culture Ladder
• The Iceberg theory
• Tools to improve Safety: The “Deming” Circle
• How do we Record & Analyse
• Some Definitions
• The “Heinrich Pyramid”
• What are our goals?
• Safety Culture and Awareness
• Use Proper PPE = Personal Protective Equipment
• Reduce 20% of Causes and you reduce 80% of all accidents
• Keep Welding and cutting equipment in good condition
• Use Proper PPE = Personal Protective Equipment
• PPE and good accessible lifting points
• Accident & Incident Reporting and Analysis
• Safety Requirements & Procedures
• Risk Matrix
• The theory of the Swiss Cheese
• Guideline Job Hazard Analysis
• Job Hazard Analysis
• Safety Awareness Posters
• Is it all OK?
• Indentification of Hazards
• Why, When and How a “Toolbox Meeting”
• Last Minute Risk Analysis (LMRA)
• Co-operation with client is essential
• Examples of well secured Transport saddles
• Examples of badly secured Transport saddles
• Example: Setting up a Crane and lifting a load
• Collapse of a Gantry Crane
• Do not Block overload protection
• Watch out for High Tension lines
• PPE and good accessible lifting points
• Conclusion

3:45-4:00 Coffee Break

4:00-4:45 11. Accidents and How To Avoid Them? (56 slides) • Tipping of Trailer with Load
• The Accident
• Accident Analysis
• Conclusion Accident
• The Salvage
• Some Transport accidents
• Some Crane accidents
• Tragic Crane accident
• Load-out of 1000 Tons module went wrong
• The Salvage
• Car over the side
• What went wrong
• A similar case, but worse!
• Load-out of Living quarters and tipped over
• Rulers on trailers stability needed or not
• Mechanical Failure of support girders
• Tipping over of Hydraulic Gantry
• Roll-off with reactor from barge (weak bottom)
• Some recommendations to avoid accidents

4:45-5:30 Multiple Choice Test, Evaluation & Certificate of Completion