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CISDOC database
| Document ID (ISN) | 28566 |
| CIS number |
78-224 |
| Year |
1977 |
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| Title |
Handling hatch boards and beams. |
| Bibliographic information |
Data Sheet 661, National Safety Council, 425 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA, 1977. 4p. Illus. |
| Abstract |
This data sheet contains sections devoted to: design of hatch beams for covering holds on cargo vessels (materials, recessed hand grips, interlocking edges, locking devices on flanged beams, roller-type beams and pontoons, clamps and other means of securing hatch covers; tarpaulins); lifting of beams and pontoons; hazards (e.g. falls through hatch covering if beams become dislodged, falling objects, crushing). Safety rules: check-list of 8 procedures to be followed in shipping and unshipping hatch boards or beams. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
USA; water transport; ships; hatchways |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
locking devices; data sheet; safe working methods |
| Document type |
F - Information notes, codes of practice, standards |
| Subject(s) |
Transport and communications
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Water transportation
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