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IMCA Digest - April 2024
Safety Events
- Injuries to the eyes and face
- Trapped finger during mooring operations
- Near miss – lid on ash trash barrel blown off due to hot ash
- MAIB: Crew member injured by rotating crank handle – LTI
- Near miss: dislodged grating with potential fall to sea
- Main bell wire rope damaged
- Main bell wire rope failed destructive test
- Lone worker collapsed at onshore site
- A reminder on watertight doors
- UK HSE: worker injured by falling stack of batteries in Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers
Publications
- Export control policy
- Code of practice for DP annual trials for mobile offshore drilling units
- Guidelines for the design and operation of dynamically positioned vessels
- Guidance on position reference systems and sensors for DP operations
- Guidance on the provision, acceptance and handling of breathing gases for diving
- Guidance on underwater excavation works involving divers
- IMCA governance handbook
- Protection of water intake points for diver safety
- Prevention of explosions during battery charging in relation to diving systems
- IMCA eCMID system annual report 2023/24 inspection findings and report quality assurance
- Board governance – Roles, induction and scorecards
- Code of conduct for IMCA members
- Guidance on drug & alcohol policies and testing
- Guidance on occupational health
- High voltage training: A syllabus for training offshore workers involved with high voltage equipment
- Outline syllabus for training of personnel in supervisory positions
- Subsea power cables
- Guidance on the use of simulators
- Guidance on competence assurance and assessment: Offshore Survey Division
- Guidance on competence assurance and assessment: Marine roles for small workboats
- Basic safety training requirements for vessel personnel employed in the offshore renewable energy sector
- An introduction to inertial navigation systems
- Station keeping incidents reported for 2005
- Guidance on travel security
- Lost bell survival
- Dynamic positioning station keeping review – Incidents reported for 2006
- Guidance on competence assurance and assessment: Diving Division
- Acrylic plastic viewports
- Dynamic positioning station keeping review – Incidents reported for 2007
- IMCA code of practice for offshore pipeline and umbilical installation systems
- Guidance on auditing of diving systems
- Dynamic positioning station keeping review – incidents reported for 2008
- Guidance on armoured umbilical life cycle management
- Dynamic positioning station keeping review – incidents reported for 2009
- Introduction to hybrid battery systems for DP vessels
- Mobile/portable/daughtercraft surface supplied systems
- Guidance on vessel USBL systems for use in offshore survey, positioning and DP operations
- Cleaning for oxygen service: Setting up facilities and procedures
- Dynamic positioning station keeping review – incidents reported for 2000
- First response and other emergency drills
- Guidance on satellite-based positioning systems for offshore applications
- Dynamic positioning station keeping review – incidents reported for 2010
- Dynamic positioning station keeping review – incidents reported for 2011
- Dynamic positioning station keeping review – incidents reported for 2012
- Station keeping incidents reported for 2013
- Station keeping incidents reported for 2014
Events
- 10 April 2024 - ProjectGHG Forum
- 22 April 2024 - Meet the Expert: ROV