One hand for the ship, one hand for yourself

The classic maritime tip revived to reduce occurrence of minor injuries.

Some words advice and warnings are spoken so often that you forget about what they actually mean.

“Cycle carefully,” your mother said before you set off for school … yet you still raced with others or cycled without your hands on the handlebars.

The “cycle carefully” in the world of the mariner is a well-known phrase: “one hand for the ship, one hand for yourself.” Now ESVAGT is making a stand and reviving the value of these words: Mariners have been given a shoulder bag – and this good advice is stitched on the flap.

“Injuries do not tend to occur during the major, risky operations,” says Jesper Møhring Madsen, HSEQ Manager for ESVAGT:

“We get injured during our day-to-day activities: when we try to balance a coffee cup and a computer or when we forget to adjust to how a normally safe road is more risky in heavy winds,” he says.

The shoulder bag can solve a practical problem – put the computer in the bag so that you have one hand for the coffee cup and another hand for the ship – and remind us that safety is something that we should always be aware of,” says Jesper Møhring Madsen:

“Safety is a perishable item that needs constant renewal,” he points out.