A member has reported an incident in which a low pressure mud hose parted. The incident occurred during the disconnecting and lifting of the mud hose from a vessel to […]
Safety Flashes
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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Safety Events
Crane boom dropped object
A member has reported an incident on an offshore construction vessel in which a piece of wood from the main crane boom rest cradle became detached from the cradle and […]
Fake emergency escape breathing devices (EEBD sets)
The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) has published Safety Flash 11-09 (attached) regarding the discovery of EEBD that are fake copies of the Unitor/MSA type Uniscape 15H. As noted in the […]
Crane motion reference unit (MRU) malfunctions after overheating
A member reports the following incident in which a crane paid out winch wire unexpectedly whilst in active heave compensation (AHC) mode. A vessel was engaged in inspection of a […]
Failure of hydraulic fitting at pressure
A member reports an incident in which a hydraulic fitting failed under pressure. The hydraulic fitting was part of a hydraulic intensifier panel used during live testing of a guillotine […]
Service bulletin – integrated flywheel generators (IFG)
A member recently reported an electrical fire inside its self-propelled hyperbaric lifeboats (SPHL). Service Bulletin 2010IWP091 (issued by Steyr Motors) was distributed to users at request of Oceanwide Safety at […]
Serious hand injury during use of deck scaler
A member has reported an incident in which a crew member sustained a serious hand injury while using an air driven deck scaler during maintenance operations on deck. The crew […]
Kirby Morgan SL 17C partially detached from neck dam
A member has reported that, following the investigation into a recent incident where a diver’s hat (Kirby Morgan SL 17C) became partially detached from the neck dam, the contractor involved […]
Failure of home-made equipment
The Marine Safety Forum has published safety flash 10/23 (attached) regarding an incident in which there was a potentially catastrophic failure of uncertified and ‘home-made’ equipment . a piece of […]
Lifting operations – securing equipment
The Marine Safety Forum has published Safety Flash 11-02 (attached) regarding an incident in which, owing to a failure of communication, attempts were made to lift equipment which was still […]
Serious failure of CO₂ fire-fighting system
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) has published Alerts 10(a)-10 abd 10(b)-10 (attached) regarding the failure of a COâ‚‚ fire-fighting system during a fire in a machinery space on board […]
Functional safety of control systems
The Australian National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority (NOPSA) has recently published the Safey Alert 45 (attached) regarding the functional safety of control systems. This is designed to raise awareness of […]
Inappropriate use of snap hooks
A member has reported that, in spite of efforts to prevent the practice, regular incidents involving the inappropriate use of hooks have continued to occur. A number of incidents have […]
Broken right hand index finger
A member has reported an incident in which a worker broke the index finger on his right hand. During a maintenance period it became necessary to deballast a methanol tank. […]
Subsea oxy-arc cutting – risk of explosion
The International Association of Oil & Gas producers (OGP) has published the attached safety flash (OGP safety alert number 227), entitled Subsea oxyarc cutting – risk of explosion. The information […]
Right hand hit by flying wedge
A member has reported an incident in which a member of the crew was injured when a steel wedge came loose and hit him on the right hand. The injured […]
Diver safety – nitrox generator use
The Australian National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority (NOPSA) has published the attached safety alert (NOPSA safety alert 44). This information can also be found at http://www.nopsa.gov.au/alert/Alert44.pdf.
Failure to calibrate MRU led to near-miss
A member has reported an incident in which a vessel crane made an uncontrolled payout of approximately 27 metres of winch wire. During crane operations to relocate an anode skid […]
Lacerated chin caused by flying wedge
An incident has been bought to the attention of IMCA, in which a worker received a laceration to the chin. A worker was removing a steel wedge from the frame […]
Welding of shackles
A member has reported that in spite of clear work instructions and procedures to the contrary, shackles and hooks at the worksite were being regularly modified by welding. Rigging suppliers […]
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