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)

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Total Recordable Injury Rate (TRIR)

489.82

Safety Oservation Frequency Rate (SOFR)

Latest Safety Flashes

Battery power bank explodes in cabin

On a vessel, a power bank exploded and caught fire at night whilst it was being charged.

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Failure of A-frame fold-down platform

An A-frame fold-down platform failed leaving a crew member suspended by their safety harness.

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Working in a confined space without a Permit to Work

During a safety walk-round, personnel were found working inside a sewage tank, without a Permit to Work.

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Unsafe handling of gas cylinders

A vessel’s Chief Mate noticed unsafe positioning of compressed gas cylinders on the quayside.

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MSF: Unsecured bulk hose near miss

A stored bulk hose moved in an unplanned way and almost struck a crew member.

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