What is the Risk?

When I was gainfully employed, one of my extra jobs was as a member of a team that performed precision and non-precision sling load operations. We removed and exchanged flare tips on offshore platforms with the BV234LR (Chinook) and EC332L1 (Super Puma), using docking and vertical reference techniques. Before the operation started we had to undergo a job analysis and a risk analysis, which then became part of the documentation for the operation. It was the team leader’s responsibility to prepare this, and it was usually done with the whole team’s participation. Before the actual job, a meeting with all those involved took place and the whole job was briefed. For some jobs we even did a dry run, or we hung the new flare tip by a crane, to ensure that it would hang correctly...