Nearly 10,000 regularly receive our Safety Flashes straight to their email inbox, ensuring that lessons learned can be shared with the entire sector. Search our online archive of more than 2,000 reports online, or view the latest below.

Alongside this, our Technical Library features the latest recommended safety best practice and information notes ensure that emerging safety trends can be addressed. Our Safety Promotional Materials and online courses, provide the tools for Members to confidently strengthen their own Safety cultures.

Safety Statistics

Nearly one billion ‘man hours’ of offshore activity a year is now covered by our Safety Statistics.

Contractor Members share their information which is anonymised. This allows IMCA to provide insights on safety, health, and performance, and identify emerging trends. Members can download the data which sets a baseline from which to review their own performance.

Our archive goes back to 1996, telling the improving safety story of the offshore sector.

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0.69

Fatal Accident Rate (FAR)

0.27

Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR)

0.98

Total Recordable Injury Rate (TRIR)

387.06

Safety Oservation Frequency Rate (SOFR)

Latest Safety Flashes

Cyber-attack on vessel

An oil tanker suffered a cybersecurity incident.

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MAIB: Normalising of unsafe practice – fatal man overboard incident

MAIB have published Accident Investigation Report 16/2026 into a fatal man overboard incident on board a bulk carrier offshore Sweden.

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Dust explosion in Bow thruster motor

Upon activation of the bow thruster, there was a loud explosion within the forward section of the workboat.

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Dropped bulk bag during loading operations

A dropped object incident occurred during quayside lifting when a bulk bag failed due to incorrect loading.

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Failure of sea-fastening on the leg of a jack-up barge

During a sea passage, prevailing sea conditions caused a jack-up barge to experience rolling and pitching motions.

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Safety News at IMCA

Commercial Diver in water
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IMCA urges focus on diver safety amid rising demand for vessel maintenance as Strait of Hormuz reopens

24 June 2026
IMCA issues diver safety warning as global subsea decommissioning accelerates
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IMCA issues diver safety warning as global subsea decommissioning accelerates

03 June 2026
A photo of a diving helmet
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IMCA publishes updates to Assessment Procedure for Diving Contractor Membership (G012/D084)

08 April 2026

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