2024
Please see the completed projects from your M-CODED committee!
Float Stage Transportation Procedure: Throughout the course of a project, float stages will need to be moved from one location to another in order to execute the work. Please see the procedure for the transportation of float stages.
Job Hazard Analysis: Moving Float Stages: Template for JHA on Moving Float Stage
Barge Access: Due to the specialized nature and location of our work, gangway & walkway systems are critical to the safety of our employees, subcontractors, inspectors, and visitors as well as to the efficiency of building our jobs. With barges in constant motion on the water due to changing tides, listing of barges, vessel traffic and current, the selection, installation and maintenance of access systems is essential when providing safe access to and from barges, and to other work areas on the water including but not limited to false work members and waterfront structures. Click on the link above for full article.
Barge Access PowerPoint: This is a Template for Member use and is intended to be customized by the end user with jobsite-specific hazards, policies, procedures, and pictures/videos
Other News Stories
Signal Training - Eight-Week Ergonomics Series 05 Sep 2025 Signal Safety Management is excited to launch an eight-week series focused on the importance of ergonomics in the maritime industry and how to establish an effective ergonomics program.OSHA Safe + Sound Week: August 11-17, 2025 24 Jul 2025 OSHA’s Safe + Sound Week, taking place this year from August 11–17, 2025. This nationwide event is a great opportunity to highlight your organization's commitment to workplace safety and to engage your employees in strengthening your safety culture.
Operational Alert: SHIPYARD WORK IN MARINE TERMINALS 23 Jul 2025 Operational Alert’s, inform Signal Mutual Members of serious incidents or a significant near-miss within the Mutual. If you have similar operations, please share this Operational Alert with operation managers, supervisors, equipment operators, and all affected employees. It is imperative that management, at all levels review their operations for similar hazardous conditions, acts, and their controls.
Solutions at Work 23 Jul 2025 What is it? Solutions-at-Work or “SAW” are individual ideas where a Member of the Mutual looked at an existing hazard and, through their employee’s years of experience, knowledge, or creativity, developed a Solution to the problem that eliminated or reduced the hazard to employees and the chance of injury.