IMCA Digest - April 2021
Safety Events
- Malaria hasn’t gone away
- MSF: wearing and storage of eye protection
- Potential Dropped object from Container
- Only a centimetre – an emergency exit hatch blocked by mooring ropes
- Update to SF 08/21: fatality – person crushed when secured material fell on him
- MAIB: Engine failure and subsequent fire
- Life raft dropped to the jetty
- Hand injury from falling object during lifting operations
- Mooring: increase in first aid cases involving over-exertion
- BSEE: Crewman fell to his death through faulty grating
- LTI during deck cargo operations
- SIMOPS – Smoke from hot work task enters confined space
- Shipyard worker receives electrical shock
- Dropped Object – Crane auxiliary block dropped from crane boom
- Near miss: vessel approach to wind turbine tower
Publications
No new or updated publications issued during this period.
Information Notes
Events
- 21-22 April 2021 - MCEDD Goes Virtual - 21 - 22 April 2021
- 28 April 2021 - IMCA South America webinar to focus on Environmental Sustainability