Page 42: of Marine News Magazine (February 2015)

41 43

SAFETY

Quality Comes Quality Comes

First In SafetyFirst In Safety

Benchmarked, standardized and customizable – Rapp Marine’s array of crane options safely cover the full gamut of workboat needs.

Edited By Joseph Keefe n the marine industry, one of the most potentially Benchmarking to a High Standard dangerous pieces of deck equipment on a vessel is the You can’t put a price on safety. With that in mind, the crane. The trigger of a serious failure can range from a crane division of Rapp Marine U.S. (formerly Rapp-Hy-

I simple operator error to signi? cant mechanical overload. dra Pro) puts quality at the top of the priority list. Rapp

Consequences can be devastating in human terms, cer- employs the American Petroleum Institute to hold it ac- tainly expensive from lost revenue and costs to repair, to countable to high quality standards. Going beyond ISO say nothing of cleaning up the mess. These are compelling 9001:2008 quality standards, Rapp also adheres to be a incentives for the prospective crane customer to look for strict Quality Management System in order to maintain an a crane both engineered and manufactured to the highest API Q1 Speci? cation. industry and quality standards. In today’s global market- There are several key differences between ISO 9001 and place, it is dif? cult to distinguish the quality differences API Spec Q1, but the additional requirements contained behind the computer illustration, one crane tends to look within API Spec Q1 mandate the formal documentation like another. There needs to be another way for buyers to of risk assessment and management. The Q1 speci? cation ensure receiving a high-quality, safe crane. makes sure that certi? ed manufacturers such as Rapp are for-

February 2015 42 MN