Podcast: Awilco Drilling: Hands-free Tools

Ian Michael Bond, lifting supervisor with Awilco Drilling delivers a podcast on hands-free tools, part of the fourth subtopic of the 2021 Q2 safety theme, Safe Lifting Operations and Preventing Falling Objects. In the podcast Ian Michael highlights the role that hands-free lifting plays in safe lifting operations and acknowledges that every asset faces different challenges in their lifting operations. He discusses the training and education programme that Awilco Drilling developed to introduce hands-free lifting to its lifting teams and mentions that they trialled a number of different hands-free tools to find those that met the company’s needs.