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Importance of safety by design: acoustic beacon damage in splash zone
What happened During recovery of tugger winches on an A-frame workstation, the headache ball experienced normal movement when exiting the splash zone. However, in this instance, the headache ball came […]
What are audits for? Some eCMID findings
eCMID is IMCA’s well-respected safety management system health-check for offshore vessels – an electronic version of the Common Marine Inspection Document. The results here are from 769 eCMID inspections, conducted […]
NOPSEMA: person injured in chain hoist incident
The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) of Australia has published Safety Alert #73 relating to an incident on an offshore facility where members of the workforce […]
Lifting complex loads – offloading third party equipment
What happened? As it was being lifted off a vessel, a cherry picker (a movable hydraulic crane with a railed platform used to raise or lower personnel) tipped over, causing […]
US Coast Guard: Wire rope terminations
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) has issued Marine Safety Alert 04-21 relating to wire rope terminations. The Safety Alert addresses the importance of verifying the condition and manufacturing of […]
HSE: Catastrophic failure of marine loading arm
What happened The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published a safety alert on the catastrophic failure of a marine loading arm. Marine loading arms (MLAs) are used to […]
Flood light dropped to deck – corrosion
A floodlight weighing about 6kg was found on the deck, near to the scaffolding storage area, underneath the main crane boom rest. The flood light affixed to the main crane […]
Hand injury from falling object during lifting operations
What happened A lifting saddle broke, causing a hose to swing and hit a crewman, causing an injury to his hand. The incident occurred at completion of cement pumping between […]
Safety Corner
Nick Hough, Technical Adviser, provides an update on all things safety-related that are applicable to IMCA members and their operations.
Failure of remote control/emergency stop on rescue boat winch
What happened There was a failure of the winch remote control and emergency stop during recovery of the rescue boat to the davit. The incident occurred on completion of rescue […]
Safety Flashes – a summary of 2020
This is a summary of the IMCA Safety Flashes of 2020. All the published safety events or incidents are available on the IMCA website as individual web pages at https://www.imca-int.com/safety-events. […]
IMCA Events Round-Up
During November and December we ran a series of successful webinars, connecting with our members on a range of topical issues through five regional webinars and one technical webinar. Recordings and presentations from each webinar are available on the events section of our website.
Serious LTI – deck crew member struck by termination head/flexible
During a flexible jumper installation operation, the 1st end termination head had been transferred over the Open Vertical Laying System and deployed through the vessel moonpool ready to initiate laydown. […]
IMCA’s Offshore Wind Safety Webinar stresses the importance of collaboration
He set the scene by walking attendees through IMCA’s 2019 key data using LTIFR by company size; touched on the safety flash system (dealt with later in the webinar by […]
MSF: Grub screws and perished valves – trouble with methanol transfer
What happened? The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) has published Safety Alert 20-06 relating to problems with methanol transfer caused by problems with grub screws and perished valves. A vessel was advised by […]
Safe use of FIBC (Flexible Intermediate Bulk Container)
What happened? A FIBC (Flexible Intermediate Bulk Container) containing 36 sand bags weighing approx. 25kg each was being lifted from the quayside to the vessel. As the load was lifted […]
eCMID and eMISW findings analysis
IMCA has analysed over 2,100 vessel inspection reports uploaded into the eCMID database at www.imcaecmid.com and produced the following summary of key findings. The eCMID system enables vessel operators to […]
Serious incidents involving the weather
A member has published a safety notice designed to raise awareness with the number of serious weather related incidents which have occurred within their fleet over the last few months. […]
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