Award acknowledges safety and development|Navy Daily

has actually been acknowledged with a 2020 Work Health and Safety Award for improving security for personnel and extending the life span of some of the ship’s key parts.

The engineering group for the Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) developed and executed brand-new fan shrouds after a critical failure of the ship’s fan blade in 2017.

The ingenious brand-new design guarantees particles is consisted of in case of catastrophic fan failure.

Commanding Officer HMAS Adelaide, Captain Jonathan Ley, said the award in the ‘Early Intervention’ category, was evidence that the wider LHD Business was seeking ingenious solutions to satisfy seaworthiness results.

“I am proud of the strong Adelaide credibility and tradition, particularly towards our technique to development, that affords our people the self-confidence to advance ideas knowing that the LHD management will support them and follow through,” Captain Ley stated.

“This culture enhances our availability and in this case significantly enhanced our safety and provides self-confidence to the crew to operate these fans to attain amphibious operations.”

Because the incident and remediation work, Adelaide has actually tape-recorded a 50 per cent reduction in fan-related problems, while the threat to workers performing work near the fans has actually been eliminated.

Command Engineer HMAS Adelaide, Leader Thomas Doherty, applauded the efforts of the engineering group and the wider LHD Business Group, consisting of industry partners.

“The success of this ingenious work performed by the LHD Enterprise sets an excellent example of fixing problems to achieve the mission, while keeping the safety of our people at the forefront,” Leader Doherty stated.

“It has reduced the amount of defects being experienced on these large and critical fans, conserving Defence money and supplying much better schedule.”

Navy’s amphibious fight and sealift systems program office also won a 2020 WHS Award in the ‘Prevention’ category.

Its award acknowledged the fitting of engine pre-heaters to LHD landing craft in order to avoid direct exposure of workers to excessive diesel exhaust.