Safety Flashes

A member has reported that as part of bell maintenance activities, a diver and dive supervisor removed grating from the bell maintenance access pit and positioned it against the moonpool […]

A member has reported that, during the work on a floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO), a diver’s umbilical became fouled on a flexible riser. The riser had been […]

A member has reported an incident in which a remotely controlled vehicle (ROV) and its tether management system (TMS) were dropped to the seabed following failure of the umbilical termination. […]

A member has reported an incident in which a sub-contractor’s employee suffered a leg injury which was categorised as a lost time injury (LTI). Whilst working on offloading a vessel, […]

A member has reported an incident in which a rigger was fatally injured when a large steel frame, known as a cursor, fell from a height of two metres trapping […]

A fatal incident has been reported which, while it took place on a drilling rig, is also relevant to many vessel operations. During a pressure test with nitrogen, a pressure […]

A member has reported several occurrences over recent months of containers being inappropriately loaded and transported with contents in an unsecured and consequently unsafe manner and seeks to highlight this […]

A member has reported an incident in which a person was injured during a personnel transfer capsule operation. Three persons involved in pipeline commissioning activities on a recently installed jacket […]

A member has reported an incident in which a crew member was narrowly missed by the head of a fuse bolt which had been shot out of a remotely operated […]

A member has reported the failure of a bell bottom door hydraulic operating system. The failure occurred while carrying out standard bell recovery operations using the port dive bell on […]

A member has reported an incident in which there was a small fire inside the drum of a tumble dryer on a vessel offshore. A burning smell was detected on […]

IMCA has received information about a hand injury caused by leaking pressurised hydraulic fluid on a drilling rig. A person was searching for the source of a small hydraulic leak. […]

A member has reported an incident in which a crane winch wire was lost during light subsea lifting work. The winch wire and the load dropped on to the seabed […]

A member has reported an incident in which there was an unexpected lowering of a suspended load during a lifting operation which had the potential to cause significant injury. During […]

IMCA has been made aware of a number of examples of fall protection equipment failing owing to poor or sub-standard equipment: Safety Alert 09-17 – Near Miss – New Fall […]

The Helicopter Task Group has published the attached briefing concerning Sikorsky S-92 helicopters.

A member has reported an incident in which a person suffered a broken leg during gangway deployment. Prior to arrival at the quayside, a vessel’s double sectioned gangway (see Figure […]

A member has reported an incident where a trapped diver umbilical resulted in his death. During the surface supplied diver operation, the diver was deployed to the bottom (56m) to […]

We have received two safety alerts – from CHC Helicopter and the European Organisation for Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) – concerning a recent incident involving a Skysail, an experimental […]

The Marine Safety Forum has published the attached safety flash (09/30)concerning a crew member injured whilst stepping from one vessel to another when no gangway was available.