Offshore Oil and Gas
| Floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels and offshore drilling platforms are workplaces where the safety and physical security of personnel has always been a challenge due to many factors. Everyday risks include personnel transfers by helicopter or vessels, working over the side, emergency abandonment and being subjected to all manner of adverse weather and sea conditions. As an industry, Oil and Gas companies spend in excess of $US2 Billion every year ensuring the safety of its workers. It's a serious business.
Knowing that there is a man overboard emergency within seconds of it occurring and being able to locate and recover the person in the water quickly is one of the key challenges faced by occupational health and safety managers. Conventional emergency distress beacons such as 406 MHz PLBs, which send the emergency signal to land-based receivers, can take too long to effect a rescue; in the harsh marine environment of many offshore drilling fields hypothermia and death can occur within minutes. Mobilarm's maritime survivor locating device, the Crewsafe V100, which can be integrated with lifejackets, is the first water-activated device to transmit a Mayday Man Overboard distress alert and real-time GPS coordinates via VHF DSC (Digital Selective Calling) and VHF voice to all VHF receivers in range, including the parent vessel or station. The localised alarm to the people in the best position to save the casualty - those closest to the incident - means the chances of survival are greatly improved.
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