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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Fatal Accident Rate (FAR)

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Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR)

1.1

Total Recordable Injury Rate (TRIR)

489.82

Safety Oservation Frequency Rate (SOFR)

Latest Safety Flashes

Fall from height during mooring due to rope tension reaction

Rope became entangled with the propellor during mooring operations of a tanker causing the operator to lose balance and fall onto the lower platform.

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Missing protection – progressive wear on hydraulic hoses causes damage

During an inspection, several hydraulic hoses and fuel hoses were found in direct contact with surrounding surfaces and sharp edges.

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Small engine room fire – flammable object ignited

While ramping up the starboard main engine, a small flammable foreign object ignited.

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Positive: damage to Fast Rescue Craft davit wire rope caught before failure

During routine checks, it was observed that the FRC davit wire rope had a visible fracture at the socket termination area.

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BSEE: Miscommunication and trapped pressure causes injury during valve maintenance

BSEE has published Safety Alert 509 relating to a gas release incident on an offshore platform.

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