Shipyards also clean, repair and paint hulls. This is usually done in dry docks or marine railways. Dry docks are floating docks that sit in the water. When a ship is floated into the dock, air is pumped into ballast tanks beneath the dock, causing the dock and the ship to rise out of the water. Marine railways sit on the edge of the water. Ships are attached to steel cables and pulled out of the water up on to shore. In both cases, hulls are cleaned by high and low pressure water guns, and by sand blasting. Painting of ship hulls is done mainly with spray guns, although occasionally hand painting occurs.
In shipyard many metal plate, pipe, gas, crane, hight voltage current, and many big power equipment. Workers will be around those materials. Every day they will face the dangerous situation. That is the way shipyard must have one department to handle this situation. We can avoid the accident if it the destiny, but we can to change it to minimize the caution of the situation that can make injury or damage.The employees of some shipyard are the most important assets to shipyard business. A proactive approach to Safety with quality training and briefing will ensure that employees and business are safer from the dangers of everything. It must take for regularly training and briefing. Generally, the new worker must get the safety briefing from safety officer before start work. After that the company must give the main safety equipment like helmet, safety shoes, goggle , ear plug, and overall .
Actually, The type of damage and injury that we can find in shipyard are explode some explosive thing, burned, poisoning of gas, radiation and fall down from the hight place. There are many procedure to make all of the damage under control. And many equipment must be stoked in shipyard to handle of safety situation, one of them is fire extinguished
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