Tag: best practices

Steamship Mutual P&I Club issued a risk alert to advise on the use of portable ladders ashore and onboard ships, as it has been notified in recent months of a number of crew injury claims resulting from ladders. 

The Japan Transport Safety Board issued an investigation report on the fatality of two and injury of one worker onboard the cargo ship 'BBC ASIA', who were caught between pipes being hoisted by the crane and a side wall during cargo handling, on October 2016, at Hanshin Port.

As explained, there have been a significant number of collisions where subsequent investigations have found that at some stage before impact, one or both parties were using VHF radio in an attempt to avoid collision. The use of VHF radio in these circumstances is not always helpful and may even prove to be dangerous.

Based on a joint industry project, DNV GL is now launching a globally applicable recommended practice, addressing how oil and gas operators, together with system integrators and vendors, can manage the emerging cyber threat.

SQE MARINE consulting company recommends best practices to check compliance with the applicable requirements of the SOLAS Convention for the forthcoming CIC on Safety of Navigation. Ship managers should be prepared for the questionnaire and address all items as appropriate. A safety equipment check (regarding safety of navigation items) should be performed and procedures included in SMS (or other relevant publications) to be reviewed for conformance.

Yves Vandenborn, Director of Loss Prevention talks about Standard P&I Club’s initiatives to tackle human error. Capt. Vandenborn notes that there is a need to enhance situational awareness and reassess the risks involved in daily operations in order seafarers not to deal with them as routine tasks and he concludes that safety culture with quality experience is crucial.

Chris Dyson, a Senior Partner and Marine Engineer, Brookes Bell Group, notes that although the shipping and offshore industries are constantly striving to improve safety standards, incidents in the marine environment continue to occur, with considerable financial, environmental and human costs.

On the account of recent piracy incident on Indian Mechanized Sailing Vessel in Somalia region, the Indian Directorate General of Shipping issued a Maritime Security Advisory to ships transiting Gulf of Aden.

Gard P&I Club issued an article, providing some precautions that can be taken to reduce the risk to seafarers from mosquitos, when visiting affected areas. Gard notes that they must not lower their guard, when there is a risk of exposure to a mosquito-borne disease, despite the WHO’s declaration that Zika no longer constitutes an international emergency.

IMCA has reported an incident in which a diver's umbilical became trapped and subsequently damaged.The incident occurred when two divers were working on some underwater clamps associated with two chlorination dosing lines on either side of the entrance to a gravity fed seawater intake located in a culvert.