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Join the next WEDA webinar about ‘The Fall Overboard Culture’
Western Dredging Association (WEDA) is gearing up for their next webinar “The Fall Overboard Culture: Breaking the Cycle“, taking place on Tuesday, September 19th at noon EDT. “Falls overboard. For as long as any of us can remember our colleagues of all ages, tenures, and job classes have hit the wa
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Van Oord among the nominees for the IADC Safety Award 2023
International Association of Dredging Companies has just announced that 9 submissions are in the running for IADC’s Safety Award 2023, one of these submissions is from – Van Oord. Van Oord’s LNG training on its fleet of LNG powered dredgers provides crew with system specific knowledge for safe opera
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Another Boskalis invention nominated for the IADC Safety Award
Boskalis rotating “safety observer” programme has been nominated to receive the IADC Safety Award 2023. Boskalis has developed a learning-by-doing programme to develop safety leadership on board its trailing suction hopper dredger, Oranje. Named the NINA “Expedition”, the programme aims to raise the
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Another DEME innovation nominated for the IADC Safety Award
DEME’s peephole inspection design for CSD dredge pump is in the running to receive the IADC Safety Award 2023. While performing dredging works on the parts of the Ok Tedi River in Papua New Guinea, DEME faced the following problem: the dredge pump and booster of its Cutter Suction Dredger (CSD) kept
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Submissions for the IADC Safety Award 2023 now open
The International Association of Dredging Companies announced today that submissions are open for the annual IADC Safety Award. It is now possible to enter your submissions for the IADC Safety Award 2023. Two awards will be given: one to a dredging organisation and a second to a supply chain organis
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WEDA’s 2023 Safety Excellence Awards
The Western Dredging Association (WEDA) Safety Commission has invited all interested parties to submit nominations for the annual 2023 Safety Excellence Awards. The awards will recognize individual organizations or project teams for outstanding contributions to meeting the goals of WEDA and for exce
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Sandusky Harbor dredging in full swing
Over the last couple of weeks, Michigan-based Luedtke Engineering has been busy dredging the federal navigation channel in Sandusky Harbor, Ohio. Luedtke began dredging Sandusky Harbor on September 18. Due to shallow water levels, they have had to extend the sediment pump-out pipeline. “Boaters shou
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DEME’s Retractable Ladder idea winner of the IADC Safety Award 2022
DEME’s Retractable Ladder for track excavators has been announced as the winner of the IADC Safety Award 2022. The award was presented by IADC President Frank Verhoeven during the IADC Annual General Meeting. DREDGING CONTRACTOR AWARD Stepping on and off machinery is not without risks. Following an
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Swinoujscie-Szczecin dredging project nominated for the IADC Safety Award
The joint project of DEME International and Van Oord to modernise the Swinoujscie-Szczecin Fairway in Poland has been nominated as a candidate for the IADC Safety Award 2022. DEME and Van Oord completed the Swinoujscie-Szczecin Fairway dredging project in March 2022. Starting in September 2018, the
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DEME’s design for manhole covers nominated for the IADC Safety Award
DEME’s simple but efficient design for manhole covers that keeps the crew safe and minimises the risk of falls during on-board maintenance and inspections is entering the race for IADC Safety Award 2022. Over the last couple of weeks, IADC has been revealing two nominees each week and will continue
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NMDC enters the race for IADC Safety Award
NMDC’s improved training programme has joined the list of nominees running to receive the IADC Safety Award 2022. In a step to improve safety, National Marine Dredging Company customised 10 in-house training programmes and became the first dredging company to be accredited by ANSI National Accredita
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Van Oord’s inspection hatch among the nominees for IADC Safety Award 2022
Van Oord’s new system named the INSPECTION HATCH will compete for the IADC Safety Award 2022. According to IADC, the system uses a cantilever to allow the inspection hatch to be operated by a single person. The design enables quick inspections, making it less labour intensive and removes the need fo
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IADC explores the progress of health and safety in the dredging industry
In the jubilee issue of the scientific journal Terra et Aqua, International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) published an article exploring the progress of health and safety in the dredging industry over the past decades. It is hard to imagine a time when safety was not deemed important, whe
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Final day to submit applications for WEDA’s 2022 Safety Excellence Awards
The WEDA Safety Commission recently invited all interested parties to submit their nominations for the annual 2022 Safety Excellence Awards. The awards will recognize individual organizations or project teams for outstanding contributions to meeting the goals of WEDA and for exceptional safety perfo