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the time and distance travelled to the next point of engagement. “It overcomes jamming and unintended malfunctions that can be experienced when using other simpler first generation products,” says Burgess. “This helps to minimise project downtime or costly delays to work scopes, providing total peace of mind for operators and marine contractors.”


SSL5 also overcomes the current industry-norm of single use immersion hoists. Burgess highlights: “Big savings are achievable with this device. The capability of the SSL5 to be immersed multiple times means it can significantly reduce capital investment on new hoists per mobilisation by up to 80%.”


Customer controlled field trials reveal William Hackett’s SSL5 hoists were immersed 12 times over a 60-day period. It successfully past a rigorous multi-immersion test, inspection and operation programme witnessed and verified by DNV GL.


“We are helping operators to make better choices and overcome purchasing large quantities of single-use hoists,” says Burgess. “The historic paradigm of single-use hoists, which are often used once and then discarded, is very expensive and not good practice from an environmental perspective. The use of single immersion hoists isn’t sustainable for today’s industry and is representative of an


out-dated practice. Customer decision-making criteria is beginning to reflect this.”


The SSL5 innovation is the result of William Hackett’s long term investment strategy. “We’ve worked hard to create a technically-superior lever hoist that saves our customers money, delivers improved cost efficiencies and consistently performs on safety for those valuable payloads.”


Safe and continual performance of lifting equipment crucially depends on minimising risk through improved resilience to failure. Burgess highlights: “We are all too aware of industry incidents that are reported from across the world. For us, it is important to continually innovate and develop our lifting solutions to mitigate potential areas of failure.”


An increasing number of employers and stakeholders in the Middle East, are recognising that lifting is a safety-critical activity. The International Labour Organization (ILO) recently unveiled estimates highlighting the root cause of 59% of lifting incidents being attributed to a human factor, with 33.3% being caused by equipment failure.


“Our investment and focus on safety are strictly aligned with organisations such as the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), and the Abu Dhabi Quality and Conformity Council (QCC) that support safety standards for lifting equipment being used in the Emirate.”


Vattenfall Creates Dozens of Offshore Wind


Jobs After Contract Win for East Coast Business A major contract to keep hundreds of Vattenfall’s wind turbines operational and safe has been awarded to east coast offshore wind services provider 3sun Group.


Up to 30 new jobs will be created to service the largest contract in the history of the Great Yarmouth-based business.


3sun Group, which already employs 200 technicians, will carry out statutory inspections across the Swedish energy group’s 50 onshore and offshore windfarms in five countries, in the UK, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden.


Danielle Lane, Vattenfall’s UK Country Manager, said: “Vattenfall is delighted to sign up 3sun Group, not just because it’s a great Norfolk business benefiting from our strong presence in the region, but also because the deal offers a great export opportunity for a leading UK business.


“The offshore wind sector deal between


industry and Government commits to both growing the UK sector work force and exporting the UK’s expertise. We achieve both with this 3sun Group deal.


3sun Group, last month acquired by energy company Worley, has between 15 and 25% of the market in offshore wind inspection services, installation and maintenance in Europe and the UK. It is currently inspecting more than 70% of the UK’s offshore wind turbines and has installed more than 4000.


Graham Hacon, 3sun Group Founder and now Vice President of Offshore Wind (Global) for Worley, said: “This is the biggest framework agreement in our 12-year history and will create 20 to 30 new jobs, which will support the growth of our international multi-skilled workforce.”


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