Over the past ten years since its inception the ICHCA hosted TT Club Innovation in Safety Award has seen entries marked by a significantly increased diversity  of innovative products, services and processes aimed at improving safety in the cargo handling industry.

As a result TT and ICHCA have decided to divide the numerous entries into four distinct categories, each of which is represented by a winner and a highly-commended entrant.

These are for:

Turning data into insight

• Winner – Voxel for its AI powered worksite visibility platform
• Highly-commended — Pandora Intelligence for its Cargo Intelligence: Data-driven risk assessment of shipments

Learning and engagement

• Winner – International Transport Workers’ Federation and ITF Seafarers’ Trust for itsInternational App-based worker training programme
• Highly-commended –  Port Skills and Safety Ltd for its Emergency Flash Cards

Making operations safer

• Winner – RAM Spreaders for its Automatic pipe handling spreader
• Highly-commended — CEPA cv for its Ergonomic lashing tool

Segregating people and machine

• Winner –  Straatman Mooring Systems for its Permanent bollard with sensors
• Highly-commended — SSA Marine for its AI driven RTG camera system

In announcing the successful innovations at a presentation ceremony in London last night, ICHCA’s CEO Richard Steele commented

“As ever the judging panel felt that all the original ideas were worthy of congratulations, and further exposure.  A complete Innovation in Safety Award Digest detailing all entries will therefore be once more published by ICHCA & TT in the near future.”

TT’s Managing Director, Loss Prevention Mike Yarwood commented,

“The excellence of these, and many of the other innovations put forward deserve a greater degree of visibility. This is our prime aim in proliferating the Awards in order to encourage our innovators to seek scalability, and by giving their ideas oxygen to stimulate their adoption and adaption by others within the global cargo handling environment.”

While practical operational devices tended to be the focus of invention and improvement when the Awards were first introduced the intervening years have seen technology based solutions proliferate and advanced training and safety awareness programmes become increasingly effective.

Steele emphasises this development, “Such diversity of entries is truly welcomed.  Safety innovation is an exciting element that compliments wide ranging industry work to establish distinct safety culture throughout organisations. A well-run safety-conscious operation is both efficient and sustainable. Running organisations successfully and doing safety well require truly visible and effective commitment from management at all levels.”

The Innovation in Safety Award is part of a continuing development of TT and ICHCA’s shared goal to bring together as wide an audience of like-minded professionals as possible; in order to share experiences of both risks to safety and the successful problem solving innovations they have developed.