 Maritime service provider offers onboard inspections to Asian market promoting safe onboard weldingWilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) is currently running a campaign to promote safe onboard welding across the Asia Pacific region.
The Welding Safety Inspection Service, launched earlier this year in Singapore, deals head-on with the challenges faced by vessel owners and operators in maintaining welding equipment onboard and ensuring operational practices are up to date with regulations. At this time, the inspection service is offered free of charge to existing customers.
Paul Rogers, Commercial Director, North East Asia (photo), WSS said:
“Onboard maintenance engineers have to cope with a huge variety of repairs which often have to be undertaken at sea under challenging conditions. Welding and using welding equipment onboard are effectively unregulated practices that carry with them a number of potentially serious safety risks. Until now, these risks have not been addressed by one single market supplier and there is a general lack of understanding and knowledge around welding equipment and practices.”
Risks to seafarers from poor practices or badly maintained equipment range from electric shock to gas cylinder explosions. The Welding Safety Inspection Programme enables WSS safety engineers to check welding and related equipment onboard ships and ensure that it is in good working order and safe to use.
Mr Rogers adds:
“Many of these accidents are simply ‘waiting to happen’, but they can be prevented through the inspection of welding equipment and the immediate reporting of such deficiencies in order that they may be rectified. WSS is the first and only supplier to address the issues over welding safety and offer an onboard inspection service and it’s a role we are proud to play.”
WSS offers an extensive portfolio of Unitor branded welding equipment, cleaning and maintenance products, spares and gases. Its range of welding solutions represents a compact but complete solution to onboard welding and related applications.
The product range is supported by a comprehensive welding safety handbook, WSS-approved Unitor training programmes at a number of maritime training centres and a global service network providing 24/7 support.
2013-06-18
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Please see Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) company electronic office For further information, contact:
Ole Jakob Ytterdal
Head of Communications
Wilhelmsen Ships Service
Tel: +47 67 58 40 00
Mobile: +47 97 08 83 62
ole.j.ytterdal@wilhelmsen.com
Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) is part of Wilhelmsen Maritime Services, a Wilh. Wilhelmsen group company. It has the world’s largest maritime services network, with 4,500 marine professionals servicing 2,200 ports in 125 countries.
Wilhelmsen Ships Service supplies safety products and services, Unitor products, Unicool refrigerants, Unitor and Nalfleet marine chemicals, maritime logistics and ships agency to the maritime industry. Last year the company made product deliveries to 25,000 vessels and handled 70, 000 port calls.
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