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Safety Flashes
IMCA safety flashes disseminate important information on incidents and potential hazards and the lessons learnt from them that can help prevent incidents occurring elsewhere in the industry.
Individual safety events are available individually online, tagged and searchable, while the traditional PDF collections are also available for download.
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Safety Events
Super Puma helicopter accident – initial report
The UK Air Accidents Investigations Branch (AAIB) has issued its initial report into the recent Super Puma helicopter accident. Although this report relates to a North Sea incident, the relevant […]
Personal locator beacons on helicopters
Further to recent helicopter accidents in the UK Offshore Sector, the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has stopped the use of passengers’ personal locator beacons (PLBs) when on helicopter flights […]
Fire in vertical lay system moonpool
A member has reported an incident in which there was a fire in the moonpool of a vertical lay system (VLS). A vessel had been involved with the recovery of […]
Mooring incidents
Members’ attention is drawn to the attached document from the UK P&I Club which is of interest regarding potential accidents that can arise from mooring operations.
Hand injury caused when worker tripped over hazard
A worker was injured after falling over a bundle of hose and electrical cables which he had to walk over in order to reach his working area. As he stepped […]
Burns suffered in confined space
An ROV pilot technician suffered burns to his hands, face and knee as a result of a fire in a confined space. The pilot technician entered the hub of a […]
Bolt failures on Lawson ROV launch and recovery systems
Members are alerted to the attached safety flash from Lawson Engineers Ltd, manufacturers of launch and recovery systems, covering a recent failure of bolts in a 3000m launch and recovery […]
Near-miss incident involving a diver’s umbilical
Attached is the UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) note ‘Flyer to the shipping industry’ entitled ‘Hazardous incident Norma – 21 June 2008’. This incident was reported in the UK […]
Crushed finger
A member has reported an incident during a dive support vessel transit from port to an offshore location, a diver sustained an injury to two fingers of his left hand. […]
Dive bell gas loss during internal bell checks
A member has reported that the aft dive bell onboard a dive support vessel suffered a gas loss while pre-dive bell internal checks were being carried out. One diver (the […]
Diver entrapment
A member has reported an incident wherein a diver became trapped by a water jet weight coat removal (WCR) tool, which he was attempting to secure to a twenty inch […]
Schat Harding Product Awareness Notice – Free-fall lifeboat hooks
Members are alerted to the attached Product Awareness Notice issued by Schat Harding in relation to its free-fall hook, type FFH13.
Winch drum failure: Deep water operations
Following an incident which involved the failure of the structure of a winch drum in a new lifting system with a load suspended at over 2,000 metres water depth on […]
Counterfeit hydrostatic release mechanisms for life-rafts
Members’ attention is drawn to the attached warning from the Swedish Maritime Safety Inspectorate which has been passed to IMCA, relating to the sale of faulty counterfeit hydrostatic release mechanisms […]
Dangers of medicine abuse
A member has reported two incidents highlighting the dangers of the inappropriate use of prescribed medicine. On two different offshore vessels personnel took prescription medication that was not prescribed for […]
Anchor drag near-miss incident
A member has reported a near-miss incident in which a barge anchor was dragged approximately 300 metres along the seabed and came within metres of a live export pipeline. Following […]
Failure of pipe handling system causes injuries and fatalities
A member has reported an incident in which the failure of a J-lay pipe-handling system caused two pipes to be dropped, one of which caused injuries to eight people, four […]
Mini transponder falling from crane wire to deck
A member has reported an incident in which a mini transponder attached to the crane wire came loose and fell 20m to the deck. A 35m long pennant wire with […]
Failure of lifting padeye
A member has reported a near miss in which a member of an ROV team spotted that one padeye on the tether management system winch was at an unusual angle. […]
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