What Manriding Is
A plain definition of manriding, where it happens on a rig, and what this awareness course does and does not give you.
8 min
Activities: 0 of 3
Manriding is the lifting, lowering or suspending of a person in a harness on the wire rope of a winch. The person, called the rider, hangs from the line. A second person, the winch operator, controls every movement. The rider cannot stop the winch alone.
On a drilling or workover rig, manriding is used to reach places where there is no ladder, platform or walkway. Typical places are the derrick or mast above the drill floor, the area around the top drive and travelling block, the substructure, and the moonpool of an offshore unit.
Manriding joins two serious hazards in one task. The first is work at height: a fall can kill. The second is lifting a person with a machine: the machine is strong enough to pull a person into steel, and it does not feel resistance the way a person does. For this reason, the industry treats manriding as a high-risk task that needs its own equipment, its own team and its own rules.
Manriding and two operations it is not
One person in a manriding harness, lifted on a dedicated manriding winch, usually inside the derrick, mast, substructure or moonpool. The winch operator and a signaller control the movement. This course is about this operation only.
The first words to know
Which statement describes manriding correctly?
Match each term to its meaning
- Rider
- Winch operator
- Moonpool
- Awareness training