Safety Flashes for 2001
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Safety Flash |
Date |
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IMCA Safety Flash 01/01- Diving fatality
- Sea fastening
- Fatal accident involving a horizontal watertight sliding door
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Jan 2001 |
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IMCA Safety Flash 02/01- Fall from height
- Overloading of survival craft
- Recall of Divex LP helmet bail-out whips and interstage hoses
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Feb 2001 |
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IMCA Safety Flash 03/01- ROV personnel injury
- Crane incident
- Emergency release of anchor winches by means of stored energy
- Leg injuries:
- Knee injury
- Ankle injury (1)
Ankle injury (2)
- Workshop finger injury
- Failure of bulk loading bag
- Battery failure on lifejacket light
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Mar 2001 |
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IMCA Safety Flash 04/01- Bail-out whip failures
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Mar 2001 |
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IMCA Safety Flash 05/01- Accidents when using power-operated watertight doors
1. Introduction
2. Examples of recent accidents
3. Key lessons - Training/familiarisation of crew members new to a vessel
4. Acknowledgements
5. References
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Apr 2001 |
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IMCA Safety Flash 06/01- Corrosion of band securing screw on diver band mask
- Fast rescue boats (Zodiac)
- Use of hand-held disc grinders
- Fork lift truck operation
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Apr 2001 |
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IMCA Safety Flash 07/01- Failure of a shackle
- Dangerous occurrence involving a mobile crane
- Explosion caused by ignition of paint vapour
- Grinding stone incident
- Oxy-arc cutting
- Checking of safety helmets
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Jul 2001 |
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IMCA Safety Flash 08/01- Failure of ROV lift umbilical winch brake
- Failure of winch brake on air diving bell system
- Incident involving oxy-acetylene cutting
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Aug 2001 |
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IMCA Safety Flash 09/01- Failure of ROV lift umbilical winch brake - Update
- Hazard potential from equipment using enclosed rechargeable batteries
- ROV winch failure
- Failure of plastic floatation buoy
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Aug 2001 |
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IMCA Safety Flash 10/01- Fire extinguishers - Potential missing/broken dip tubes on Hyfex models
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Sep 2001 |
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IMCA Safety Flash 11/01- Failure of ROV lift umbilical winch brake - Update
- Dead man anchor supplied unfit for purpose
- Vessel and port security
- Near-miss incident lowering concrete mattress
- Insecure crane lighting
- Reaction brackets on the Divex SLS system backpack
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Oct 2001 |
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IMCA Safety Flash 12/01- Dropped object risk
- Negative pressure injury to a diver
- Serious incident while checking man-overboard and buoy smoke marker
- Incident as a result of failure of a bollard
- Failure of cable socks (Chinese fingers) on subsea rigging
- Medical device recall - defibrillator
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Oct 2001 |
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IMCA Safety Flash 13/01- Retrieval of buoys
- Electrical fire in engine room
- Fatality during maintenance of elevator lift
- Need for supplied air in the vicinity of man way during nitrogen purge
- Grit hose parting: Near-miss incident
- Improper slinging of cargo
- Exploding light and smoke marker
- Fatality involving offshore drilling pipe rack flingers
- Winch incident
- MSA Surety Sure-Stop™ shock absorbers
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Nov 2001 |
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