Event report

Elements for Safety: Completing the Health & Safety Jigsaw
3-4 February 2005, Ajax Amsterdam Arena, The Netherlands

IMCA's third major seminar dedicated to onshore and offshore personnel responsible for safety took place on 3-4 February 2005 at the Ajax Amsterdam Arena, with around 70 delegates in attendance.

Interesting and thought-provoking presentations were given on a wide range of safety-related topics, including a very emotive drama performed by an actress, which came as a surprise to many of the delegates as it had not been on the published agenda. Productive discussion followed each item, sharing ideas and experiences and generating actions for future work by IMCA.

A good deal of positive and constructive feedback was received from delegates across the two days, who judged the seminar to be a resounding success.

A CD containing the presentations and reports on the discussion sessions is available to members on request.

Presentations

• Introduction and welcome: Aims of workshop
• Update on IMCA actions from previous workshops
• Lifting for a Living - Heerema initiative
• Finger entrapment: A painful experience
• ISPS: Learning from experience
• Leading and lagging performance indicators: Where we are going
• Engine room safety: Everything you wanted to know about engine room safety but were afraid to ask the Chief Engineer
• Learning from incidents
• Occupational health in offshore management
• Malaria: How best to protect your personnel
• HSE expectations: A client perspective
• Transfer at sea
• Behavioural-based safety: Results of IMCA study
• IMCA's current and future work programme