Safety
IMCA strives to ensure a continuing improvement in the safety performance of the marine contracting sector to help its members achieve the zero-injury goal.
Zero injuries is by its very nature a hard target to meet. However, every incident has consequences - for the people involved, who may be injured or worse, their families and colleagues, in terms of damage to equipment, through lost up-time and in financial and business terms for the company involved. For these reasons IMCA and its members continue to strive to eliminate incidents from our industry.
The SEL core committee has a number of initiatives, set out below, to help achieve this, as well as co-ordinating work within IMCA's technical divisions in their own particular areas of expertise.
Good practice guidance
IMCA publishes and maintains an extensive catalogue of guidance, the vast majority of it aimed at helping improve safety in the marine contracting sector. Details can be found throughout this site in each technical area.
The sharing of information on incidents and near-misses is a powerful enabler for IMCA members to achieve safe, reliable and efficient operations. A number of systems are in place to facilitate this, enabling direct sharing and learning among members and also identifying trends and key causes to be addressed through IMCA work items. Click here for more information or to contribute.
IMCA safety seminars help delegates share information on successful safety initiatives, hazards and lessons learnt from incidents, with presentations, discussion sessions and exhibition of safety-related materials. Click here for more details on recent and forthcoming events.
Safety training
IMCA has produced a wealth of guidance on training, covering a number of safety issues. Included in this are documents produced by the SEL core activity particularly in relation to safety, induction and familiarisation for vessel crews and non-marine personnel alike. See the Competence & Training publications area for a summary of training guidance.
IMCA produces an extensive range of resources designed to help its members develop and strengthen the safety culture within their own workforce, including videos, posters and pocket cards. Click here for more details.
Safety statistics
An annual member safety statistics exercise helps identify industry trends and enables members to benchmark their own performance against industry averages. A suite of leading performance indicators developed by the association helps to reduce the high reliance simply on lagging indicators such as lost time injury (LTI) rates as the main judge of safety performance.
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