Safety
IMCA has a long history of bringing together its members' collective experience and expertise to produce guidance on safe operations. Its success in this field can be seen from the use made by regulators around the world in referencing IMCA specialist documentation in regulations which affect the marine contracting industry.
In addition to producing such guidance, IMCA provides opportunities for networking and discussion of key issues, in addition to having in place a successful 'Safety Flash' system for the dissemination of important information from incidents that do occur and the lessons that can be learnt from them.
Safety Flashes
One of the less publicly obvious but crucial systems IMCA maintains is that for the dissemination of important information on those incidents which do occur and the lessons learnt from them that can help prevent such incidents re-occuring elsewhere in the industry. Click here for full information, including a full listing of recent safety flashes and examples of the information they contain.
Safety Training
In June 2000, IMCA produced "Guidance for the initial & refresher familiarisation of vessel crews" (IMCA S&L 003), to set out aspects that should be covered in familiarisation training of all personnel when they board a vessel, covering both personnel new to a vessel (induction training) and refresher training for existing personnel.
IMCA has also now published "Guidance on basic safety training for non-marine personnel on specialist vessels" (IMCA SEL 007), to address the situation IMCA members have faced in a number of parts of the world, where sub-contractor personnel coming onto their vessels may have received no basic safety training.
Safety-Focused Events
IMCA has held a number of safety-focused seminars and workshops, which have built into major events. At these, members can share experience, best practice and new ideas, as well as providing valuable input into the Association's ongoing work programme. Click here for more information on recent events.
In addition, a regular feature of IMCA committee and regional section meetings is an un-minuted period of discussion of recent incidents, which, as well enabling the spread of vital information on ensuring continuing safe operations, helps the committees/ sections focus their work programmes on those areas which will likely lead to the greatest improvements in safety performance.
Safety Statistics
Member-provided information is collected and analysed to provide an overview of the safety performance of the marine contracting industry. This assists companies individually in benchmarking their own performance and provides information to assist the association in briefing others about its work and lobbying with clients and regulators on behalf of members.
To build on this work, IMCA's SEL Committee has, in conjunction with members, developed a suite of leading performance indicators for use in future years' statistics exercises. With promotion to and adoption by members and clients, it is hoped that these indicators could reduce the high reliance on lost time indicators (LTI) as the main judge of safety performance. The indicators, published in early 2003 and to be reported in subsequent annual statistics exercises are as follows:
- Safety observation frequency rating (SOFR)
- Injury events reporting level (RAL)
- Line management visit rating (MVR)
- Lessons learned rating (LLR)
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