A new, relatively inexperienced deckhand is assigned to work near the gallows/winch during gear hauling on their first trip. What should happen before they are left to work in that area?

A. Experience level is irrelevant to how gear-hazard areas should be supervised

B. No specific briefing is needed beyond the standard joining induction, since gear hazards are common sense

C. A specific safety briefing and direct supervision/familiarisation covering the hazards of that particular task and vessel, before they work unsupervised in a high-hazard area — generic induction alone is not enough for task-specific gear hazards

D. They should be left to learn the hazards by observing more experienced crew from a distance only, with no direct instruction

A. Falls down an internal companionway stairway

B. A crew member working alone or unsupervised on an open, exposed deck while handling gear, often without a properly worn personal flotation device (PFD), with no one immediately aware they have gone over the side

C. Falls during routine vessel maintenance in port

D. Falls while boarding the vessel from the quay

A. Entanglement is a purely theoretical risk with no real-world basis in fishing vessel incidents

B. This hazard is limited only to trawling vessels and does not apply to pot/static gear vessels

C. Entanglement risk is minimal because modern winches have automatic emergency stops that always activate in time

D. Warps and gear-handling machinery operate under very high tension and can apply enormous, near-instantaneous force, capable of causing traumatic injury, dragging a person overboard, or pulling them into machinery before they can react