We have been passed a recall notice, copied below, put out by Laerdal Medical Ltd regarding its Heartstart 3000 and 3000QR defibrillators.
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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IMCA Contact
Nicholas Hough
Technical Adviser - HSSE and Offshore Survey
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Safety Events
Failure of cable socks (Chinese fingers) on subsea rigging
We have been passed information on the following incident. A 2″ diameter pipeline dewatering hose had been deployed to the seabed, supported at 20 m intervals by cable socks (Chinese […]
Incident as a result of failure of a bollard
A member has reported the following incident. A cargo barge loaded with 525 tons was moored to a pipelay barge, when one of the bollards on the cargo barge broke […]
Serious incident while checking man-overboard and buoy smoke marker
A member has informed us of a serious incident that occurred when a person was injured while checking the service date on one of the man-overboard and buoy smoke marker […]
Negative pressure injury to a diver
A member has reported this recent incident, concerning negative pressure when breaking containment in subsea pipework. During diving operations on a subsea manifold in 140 msw, work was being undertaken […]
Dropped object risk
A member has reported finding the ‘job-made’ lifting hook shown below, rough cut from half inch steel plate, during a routine safety check at a vendor’s shipyard. The lifting hook […]
Reaction brackets on the Divex SLS system backpack
Attached please find a caution notice recently received from Divex concerning the above.
Insecure crane lighting
A sodium floodlight is reported to have fallen from a crane boom. On investigation, the floodlight mounting bracket was found to be cracked and the pad eye weakened and this […]
Near-miss incident lowering concrete mattress
A member reports a diving near miss incident when a concrete protection mattress was being moved into position. A concrete flexible protection mattress was being deployed by ship’s crane whilst […]
Vessel and port security
A member has sent a safety notice that was passed to him from a major oil company which is of interest to all members. Two stowaways were found on board […]
Dead man anchor supplied unfit for purpose
A clump weight was sent to a member’s dive ship with the intention of it being used as a dead man anchor (DMA). The offshore manager correctly rejected the weight […]
Failure of ROV lift umbilical winch brake – Update
In the Safety Flash 09/01 we gave an update on the design problem found in a Macartney Cormax unit manufactured by Norlau (see Safety Flash 08/01 – Failure of ROV […]
Fire extinguishers – Potential missing/broken dip tubes on Hyfex models
Members should be aware of the attached caution/safety notice we have received from Divex.
Failure of plastic floatation buoy
We have received the following information concerning a failure of a plastic floatation buoy. During deepwater operations on one of our member’s vessels, a sling had been recovered to surface […]
ROV winch failure
One of our members has reported an ROV winch failure during drill support on a semi submersible drill rig working in 80-100 meters water depth. During a ROV launch the […]
Hazard potential from equipment using enclosed rechargeable batteries
A member has reported that a damage event occurred recently at one of their workshop facilities, where a sealed housing containing a rechargeable battery pack exploded. In this incident a […]
Failure of ROV lift umbilical winch brake – Update
In the Safety Flash 08/01 (Failure of ROV lift umbilical winch brake) we reported an incident concerning an uncontrolled ROV umbilical winch run off involving a MacArtney CORMAX unit manufactured […]
Incident involving oxy-acetylene cutting
One of our members has informed us of recent incident which occurred during the assembly of oxy-acetylene cutting equipment. An internal explosion occurred and injured a Dive Tender, fortunately not […]
Failure of winch brake on air diving bell system
One of our members has recently reported a failure of a winch brake on an air diving bell system. One of their vessels was undertaking air diving work using a […]
Failure of ROV lift umbilical winch brake
Introduction One of our members has informed us of the following incident. An ROV system was providing subsea intervention support working from a drill rig in depths up to 2500msw. […]
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