Nearly 10,000 regularly receive our Safety Flashes straight to their email inbox, ensuring that lessons learned can be shared with the entire sector. Search our online archive of more than 2,000 reports online, or view the latest below.

Alongside this, our Technical Library features the latest recommended safety best practice and information notes ensure that emerging safety trends can be addressed. Our Safety Promotional Materials and online courses, provide the tools for Members to confidently strengthen their own Safety cultures.

Safety Statistics

Nearly one billion ‘man hours’ of offshore activity a year is now covered by our Safety Statistics.

Contractor Members share their information which is anonymised. This allows IMCA to provide insights on safety, health, and performance, and identify emerging trends. Members can download the data which sets a baseline from which to review their own performance.

Our archive goes back to 1996, telling the improving safety story of the offshore sector.

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0.63

Fatal Accident Rate (FAR)

0.3

Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR)

1.07

Total Recordable Injury Rate (TRIR)

440.56

Safety Oservation Frequency Rate (SOFR)

Latest Safety Flashes

Incidents occurring during decommissioning

IMCA has put together a summary of incidents relating to decommissioning.

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LTI: rope under tension moved and hit person’s hand

A member of the crew suffered a serious hand injury when struck by a rope under tension.

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Injuries during lifting operations

A member reports two separate lifting activities involving failure of lifting equipment and resulting in minor injuries to nearby personnel.

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Finger injury during manual handling

An IMCA’s members’ utilities supplier in the United States reports a serious finger injury during manual handling

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Acetylene gas explosion

There was a small explosion and fire when crew were working on an oxy-acetylene system.

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Safety News at IMCA

Photo of a diving decompression chamber
News
IMCA Publishes New Guidance on Deck Decompression Chamber Operations for the Therapeutic Treatment of Divers

13 March 2025
Commercial Diver 43 (Dreamstime)
Commentary
Underwater Ship Husbandry - key steps the sector must take to protect diver safety

07 February 2025
Alan Strong (l), owner and managing director of Commercial Diving Academy and Peter Evans (r), Managing Director at Shelf Subsea Australia
News
IMCA diving contractor Member makes “unbelievable” donation to the world’s last remaining saturation diving school

15 January 2025

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