Incident Reporting & Analysis
IMCA helps its members to share information on potential hazards at the worksite, lessons learnt from follow-up investigations and, thereby, to avoid repeat occurrences elsewhere in the industry.
Learning from mistakes is a key part of business improvement and the pursuit of efficiency. Avoiding repeating an incident or accident saves lives, time and money - we all know it makes sense. IMCA has been at the forefront of trying to help its members in this way by collecting, analysing and publishing data in many ways:
- Safety flashes - sharing information on various incidents, near-misses and hazard observations to help avoid recurrences elsewhere in the industry. Recent reports are available for downloading on this website, with members having full access to an online archive dating back to 1997
- DP incidents - enabling analysis of trends and common causes and follow-up work with vessel operators, manufacturers, training providers and others
- Lifting incidents - tackling incidents relating to cranes and offshore lifting in a similar manner
- Security alerts - discussion via the Security Task Force helps identify and share information on threats and to develop guidance on how they can be avoided
- Un-minuted discussions - sessions at regional section, committee and workgroup meetings enable free discussion and information sharing on safety-related issues
All reports are handled confidentially by the secretariat, anonymised and checked with contributors prior to publication to members or circulation to any committees or workgroups.
More details on the benefits of incident reporting are set out in an IMCA factsheet, available for downloading below.
Help the industry further improve its safety performance by adding IMCA to your alert distribution lists:
incidentreports@imca-int.com
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DP incidents (DP vessels)