• 2008 Seacare Awards & Conference
• 2006 Seacare Awards & Conference
• 2004 Seacare Awards & Conference
  • Rehabilitiation winner
  • OHS Risk Solution - Winner
  • OHS Risk Solution - Highly Commended
  • OHS Risk Solution - Highly Commended
  • OHS Leadership Award - Winner
  • OHS Leadership Awards - Highly Commended
• 2003 Seacare Awards & Conference
• Rehab & RTW Round Table 2001
• Rehab & RTW Symposium 2000

Winner Farstad Shipping (Indian Pacific) Pty Ltd

Farstad Shipping (Indian Pacific) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Farstad Shipping ASA, a public Norwegian company operating specialist vessels servicing the offshore oil and gas industry. Farstad Shipping is a leading provider of sophisticated support vessel and associated marine services to the offshore oil and gas industry world-wide with 20 ships currently operating in the Indian Pacific region. It employs around 400 Australian staff.

Farstad Shipping (Indian Pacific) identified manual handling activities as the source of around 20% of its injury incidents. In addressing this problem, Farstad developed a manual handling program based on increasing crew members' OHS skills and awareness, in order to actively include them in hazard identification and risk assessment processes. Hazards identified, and control measures suggested, by crew members are collated by Farstad's Health Safety Environment & Quality Department, forming the foundation of solutions which are then implemented across the Farstad fleet.

This participatory approach became a program model that Farstad now applies to four other significant maritime industry OHS issues: personal protective equipment; sun protection; galley hygiene; and job hazard analysis. Farstad's Safety Awareness Programs provide a systematic, comprehensive and effective means of managing its OHS.

Congratulations Farstad Shipping (Indian Pacific) Pty Ltd.