DROPS Resources

A single index of what the DROPS Forum publishes: the calculators and the knowledge assistant, the training programmes, the guidance pages, and the forums where the industry compares notes.

Tools

• DROPS Calculator — enter an object’s mass and drop height to get its consequence rating and impact energy in joules.
• Impact Force Calculator — a longer calculation that also accounts for the surface an object lands on.
• DROPS Knowledge Assistant — ask a question in any language and get an answer with page references from the DROPS Recommended Practice and the Reliable Securing Handbook.
• Snakes & Ladders — a short awareness game for toolbox talks, played in a browser.

Training

• DROPS Training — workshops and courses for crews, inspectors and focal points.
• DROPS Focal Point Program — structured training for the person who runs dropped object prevention on a site.
• DROPS Metaverse — virtual reality scenarios including cargo inspection, hazard hunts and human factors.

Guidance

• Dropped Object Prevention — how the industry approaches the problem, end to end.
• Reliable Securing — primary fixings, secondary retention and safety securing.
• Red Zone Management — keeping people out from under the load.
• Hierarchy of Controls — elimination through to PPE, applied to objects at height.
• DROPS Bow Tie — mapping causes, barriers and consequences on one diagram.
• Galvanic Corrosion — why a joint between two different metals becomes a dropped object.
• Dropped Objects in Industrial Operations — the same problem outside drilling.

Community

• Events and recordings — monthly forums, workshops and webinars, with minutes.
• Provider Directory — companies offering DROPS products, surveys and training.
• Membership — how to join the DROPS Forum.