Tag: CHIRP

CHIRP Maritime has published its latest 'Feedback Maritime' Magazine in the context of providing lessons learned and raising awareness of safety issues. Among others, CHIRP highlights an accommodation ladder failure whilst the ladder was being recovered after a pilot had boarded and discusses important issues related to maintenance, design, and human factors.

After a severe chemical burn to an engineer onboard, CHIRP analyzes the incident, explaining the circumstances that led to it and provides lessons learned for the future.

After a machinery breakdown led to a collision, CHIRP analyzes the incident, explaining the circumstances that led to it and provides lessons learned for the future.

CHIRP provides lessons from an incident regarding a collision with bridge and barge after moorings parted in high winds.

CHIRP analyzes an incident where a vessel touched bottom during canal transit, and provides lessons learned to keep similar accidents to take place in the future.

CHIRP provides lessons learned from serious mental health issues due to fatigue and high levels of stress concerning a chief officer who was working on an LPG vessel.

In the most recent maritime feedback, CHIRP reports about lessons learned from a personal injury, from which an engineer got burned in the body and the face.

CHIRP reports an incident concerning a pilot ladder that did not meet SOLAS standards.

CHIRP reports tha about an incident that concern failures to comply with the pilot ladder regulations.

As CHIRP informs, during an annual lifeboat safety inspection it was discovered that the on-load cable release could not easily be moved, and the release lever required extreme force to operate. The forward hook cable release also did not operate properly.