How many employees work for your organisation?
Where does your organisation operate? Choose more than one if applicable.
What sector best describes you or your organisation? Choose more than one if applicable.
Do you support the proposed new licences for telehandlers, piling rigs and straddle carriers?
Why not?
Concerning straddle carriers - Training is readily available through the Marine Industries Association and is applicable to the lifting, traversing and blocking of vessels specifically.
If the proposals above were introduced, what impact would they have for you and your organisation For example, would they keep workers safer? Would they improve WHS or create costs for your business?
The proposal will require not-for-profit yacht clubs, many of which are already struggling to maintain Membership numbers due to an aging demographic and inflation, to invest thousands of dollars in employee wages, course costs and lost time to undertake a course that will not increase safety and potentially increase complacency by introducing confident staff to a workplace using completely different cranes to which they are trained to use, shifting completely different loads.
The MIA provides tailored training for marina straddle carrier operators which instructs them on
the techniques to safely lift and standing vessels – which is very different to lifting a container.
The proposal may require these Clubs to choose between doing a relevant to their field and everyday operation course, or a course to simply make them compliant by learning irrelevant information.
What factors would impact the success of the proposed new licences?
Students would be completing a course about loads they are unlikely to lift on cranes they are unlikely to use. The equivalent of me getting car license to drive a semi-trailer.
Are there alternatives to the proposals proposed, including non-regulatory options? What are these, and how would they improve crane safety?
Recognise the MIA Straddle Carrier Operation & Management Certification as a License. This
course is highly regarded by industry and most marinas ensure their operators are trained and
certified.
The industry has a very good safety culture which is evidence by the participation in these
courses, the voluntary certification of the drivers and the low frequency of incidences.
Having completed this course, I can confirm it was run well, with a safety orientated approach. Content was relevant to my day-to-day operation in a vessel slipping environment.
For each of the licences or crane types proposed, provide an indication of approximately how long a person should work under supervision before being fully qualified.
| Hours | Days | Months | |
| Straddle carrier | 3 |
Are there specific types of plant or models that should or shouldn’t be included in the scope of each proposed licence?
Not for straddle carriers
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