IMCA Digest - January 2021
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News
- COVID-19 Update: Swift COVID-19 vaccines urged for largest U.S. ports amid cargo backlogs
- COVID-19 Update: International Investors Call on UN for Actions to protect Seafarers
- COVID-19 Update: Port of Santos workers will have priority in vaccination
- COVID-19 Update: Netherlands Entrance Requirements
- Fuel Consumption Data Collection
- Annual Safety Statistics Submission – NOW OPEN
- Ensuring eCMID and eMISW Inspection Integrity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Safety Flashes – Summary of 2020
Published Articles
No articles published during this period.
Safety Events
- Positive: vessel improvements made following a man overboard incident
- Vessel Near Miss with wellhead
- Lifeboat wire rope failure
- Near miss: uncontrolled movement of mooring chain
- Dutch Safety Board: fatality when mooring line snapped
- Stop work authority enforced – unsafe conditions, no appropriate lifting gear available
- Secured material fell against crewman causing injury
- NTSB: Overturning of the Liftboat Kristin Faye
- Safety Flashes – a summary of 2020
- MSF: Cargo Snagging
- NTSB: Flooding, sinking and loss of tugboat Mangilao
DP Events
No DP events published during this period.
Publications
- Diving Certification Revalidation and CPD
- Guidance on simultaneous operations (SIMOPS)
- Guidance on operational activity planning
- Pressure Gauges and Other Forms of Pressure Monitoring Equipment Used in Conjunction with Diving Operations
- Prevention of explosions during battery charging in relation to diving systems
- Standardised Boat Landing Research Report
- Guidance on Drug & Alcohol Policies and Testing