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

Structural failure of rescue boat

A rescue boat suffered a catastrophic structural failure whilst unattended on the davit.

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High potential: spontaneous opening of hydraulic release shackle (HRS) pin

During lifting operations on a vessel, a hydraulic release shackle pin opened on its own.

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NTSB: diesel generator engine failure

The National Transportation Safety Board of the United States (NTSB) published "Safer Seas Digest 2023".

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LTI: fall from height during anchor chain handling operation

A worker fell through an opening from one deck to another, and was injured as a result.

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Sudden disconnection of pressurised hose

A contractor was performing maintenance on the bulk cargo methanol system on deck of a vessel.

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Safety News at IMCA

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IMCA Awards 2024: Highlighting positive change in the Marine industry

05 December 2024
Iain Grainger, CEO at Global Summit 2024, Utrecht
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Global Summit 2024

03 December 2024
Enlosed Space
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Maritime organisations address growing concerns over enclosed space fatalities

21 November 2024

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