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IMCA safety flashes disseminate important information on incidents and potential hazards and the lessons learnt from them that can help prevent incidents occurring elsewhere in the industry.

Individual safety events are available individually online, tagged and searchable, while the traditional PDF collections are also available for download.

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MOB fatality from multi-cat

What happened? A member reports a man overboard fatality which occurred from a multi-cat engaged in shallow water construction in an inshore environment. The task involved recovery and re-arrangement of […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 21/20

Double man overboard resulting in one fatality

What happened? During preparations for disconnecting a tow tug which was moored to a barge in turn moored to the jetty, a crew member of the tow tug fell into […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 21/20











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. […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 18/20

Near miss/positive: crew exercised stop work on new gangway

What happened? A newly installed gangway was found inadequate and unsafe. After the first transfer test on the gangway, the Captain observed several unsafe conditions – a trip hazard and […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 18/20


MSF: water based mud spill on deck

What happened? The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) has published Safety Alert 20-05 relating to a spill of water-based mud. During routine mud transfer operations at an offshore installation the rig […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 18/20



Fire in the engine room

What happened A vessel suffered a fire in the engine room. The incident occurred after the vessel was leaving port during the hours of darkness in calm weather. The vessel […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 17/20

Engine room fire – a small rag left after maintenance

What happened There was a small fire in the engine room of a large multi-engined vessel. Work had been carried out the previous night to replace a sheared bolt on […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 17/20

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