GEAPS Exchange 2025: Barge Safety Basics: Best Practices for Loading Grain Barges
Session Description
Barge loading is one of the most dangerous tasks an elevator has to do. The dangers of barges themselves are compounded by snapping lines, heavy machinery, fast-moving currents, and cold water. Join us for this session to learn some best practices and new technologies for keeping yourself and your workers safe when loading barges at a grain elevator.
Meet The Speaker
April Sloan has led the Cargill East St. Louis grain elevator, which includes a heavy focus on barge loading operations on the Mississippi River, for the last three years. She is a committee lead for an internal barge safety group that aims to drive efficiencies in the safety and operational space of barge handling and participates in a local safety group that brings various entities together to share and develop ideas to improve the safety of barge operations. April has a master’s degree in chemical engineering and brings over a decade of experience in operations and logistics to the grain industry.