Safety Flashes

A member has reported a recent near-miss where a vessel sailed close to a construction barge and crossed over two of its anchor wires. Immediate communication took place between the […]

A member has reported the following incident which occurred onboard one of its vessels. The vessel was sailing in 6 8ft swell and 35kts wind speed, when it was noticed […]

A member has forwarded its recently-issued safety reminder concerning the use of prescription medicines. Sometimes, employees who are under treatment of a qualified doctor may be prescribed to take medicine(s) […]

A member has reported the following incident, whereby an employee sustained an injury to his right shoulder when he fell while jumping off a Zodiac inflatable (in a cradle suspended […]

A mechanic had started a deck air compressor, when the sudden delivery of pressurised air through the delivery hose caused momentary snaking of the hose. The mechanic acted in a […]

After replacement of the pillar valve on a bail-out bottle, the bottle was being filled with air. When the pressure reached about 100 bar, the threads slipped from the bottle […]

A member has reported a recent incident which occurred during diving operations. A dive team was engaged in removing rock dump from a subsea pipe, in order to position a […]

A member reports the following near miss whereby a worker was observed blowing oxygen into the welding hood of a co worker who was welding on a pipe. This was […]

A member has reported a serious near-miss event which occurred recently during a diving operation. Divers had fitted a collet connector to the open end of a flooded pipeline and […]

A member has reported a lost gas incident that occurred with two of its divers on a third party vessel. They do not normally dive from this vessel and were […]

A member has reported an incident in which a manifold rated to 232 bar was fitted to a twin cylinder 300 bar bail-out. The manifold in question had no pressure […]

IMCA recently received notification of an incident involving a particular type of snatch block, which could be knocked apart if the bolt and hairpin were removed and the block left […]

A member has reported the following safety issue concerning incorrectly machined valves. During general maintenance on a diver’s emergency gas manifold which was fitted in an air diving basket, a […]

This incident was originally included in safety flash 11/03, but the flash is being reissued in the light of additional feedback on the recommendations previously given. The earlier version has […]

We were recently provided with and issued details of a ‘high potential’ near-miss incident involving failings in a saturation diver’s personal protective equipment. This information was issued as part of […]

A planned ‘routine’ maintenance operation was in progress, to individually move each of eight anchor chains, to a pre-arranged plan, to ensure that the chain links were not subject to […]

Further to the information provided in safety flash 01/03 (Follow-up to Toxic gas emission from transponder (lithium batteries)), Kongsberg Simrad has now updated its transponder safety information. This can be […]

A forklift battery was found to be flat and it was changed out with a replacement that was held onboard and tested per procedures, the forklift was also function tested […]

We have received the following report of an incident which occurred during internal cleaning operations in a produced water de-gasser which was being undertaken by two contract cleaners. This vessel […]