IMCA Digest - May 2022
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Published Articles
No articles published during this period.
Safety Events
- MSF: Corrosion in fire-fighting equipment
- Searchlight fell from vessel during heavy weather
- USCG: Exceeding electrical duty rating can lead to failure
- Near miss: grinder disc rotation set up in the wrong direction
- Surface decompression near-miss
- This is not a drill…an LTI during a drill (MSF)
- Safe Use of Ladders and Stepladders
- IOGP: Dropped object with potential for injury – riser release
- Process Safety Fundamentals – IOGP / Step Change
- Explosion – hot work in a flammable atmosphere (Transport Malta)
- MSF: Manual Handling Injury During Bulk Hose Operations
- Maintenance and painting – two incidents
- MAIB: Loss of containers overboard – task seen as routine
- Near miss: Floor Plate fell from Main Mast during storm
- Riggers injured while disconnecting rigging
DP Events
No DP events published during this period.