Posted By frank5755 I would appreciate if you would tell me ,do we require POB or T Card System when transfering peples around (10) with heavy load on barge??? Thank you in advance Frank

Posted By GeoffB4 ... or perhaps English isn't his first language. I'd be interested in the answer Frank, not knowing anything about barges.

Posted By Mike Charleston Frank This isn't my area of current activity but I've been on the periphery of it many times. In the UK there is no doubt that you MUST track personnel movements - but the reality is that you really SHOULD do so anyway, for the same reasons that we look after people's health and safety. Perhaps in your country there is a law or guidance that says you MUST but I assume not, otherwise there was no point in asking the question. If there is nothing to tell you that it must be done, take a realistic view based on the importance of tracking personnel on and off a barge. If you do decide that it is right to track people for whatever reason, moral or otherwise, then a POB or T Card System is not essential - but they are designed for tracking such transfers and do work well, so why not simply follow good practice? I don't follow the reason for mentioning "with heavy load on barge" - does that increase the transport risk? Does it mean less space for the people? If the first of these, tracking is surely going to become more important? A shorter response would have said quite simply YES - since any other answer would be telling everyone involved that "it doesn't matter if we know you are on the barge or not .... we simply don't care!" Mike