This course aims to provide participants with the skill and knowledge to work as stevedores in PSA’s Terminals.

Practical test

Personnel who are required to handle break-bulk cargo on board ships or on wharves and who are required to lash/unlash containers at the conventional terminals.

3 days (0830 -1630 hrs)

• Duties and responsibilities of stevedores

• Workplace Safety and Health Act

• The cargo ship

• Means of access

• Ships lifting system

• Types of hatches

• Opening and closing hatches

• Hatches means of access, lighting, ventilation

• Nature and packing of cargo

• Types of cargo handling gears / aids and their usage

• Cargo handling symbols

• IMO dangerous goods labels, placards and marks

• Personal protective equipment

• Preparation for work

• Handling general cargo and heavy lifts

• Slinging safety

• Safety on wharf and on board vessels

• Lifting safely kinetics

• Port safety rules and regulations

• PSA’s safety philosophy

• Common Lashing Gears

• Examples of Lashing Patterns

• Berthing and unberthing operations

• Practical exercise - manual lifting (kinetics)

• Practical exercise - signalling

• Practical exercise - slinging

• Fixing / removing cones, manual twistlocks and semiauto twistlocks

• Fixing/dismantling turnbuckle/ bar and chain lashing

• Fixing / removing bridge fittings

• Coning / deconing at wharfside

• Use of safety harness

COURSE DATES

Upon request. Please call 6279-4458 / 6279-4460 to make the necessary arrangements.

Upon passing a practical test, participants will receive a Certificate of Successful Completion and participants with PSA passes will be able to work as stevedores in PSA’s Terminals.