Tag: incident investigation

The EU-funded SAFEMODE project highlights the need to evolve a simple database in which accidents are being reported into an evidence base from which the most common and severe accidents, as well as their causes and contributory factors, can emerge.

Freeport LNG is providing the results of an independent, third-party root cause failure analysis (RCFA) report on the June 8, 2022 incident that occurred at its liquefaction facility.

According to the EU-funded SAFEMODE project, it is useful to consider the accident ‘iceberg’, when considering causality and Safety Learning. The events and facts – who did what, when and where, are the surface layer, relatively easy to document. But they don’t tell the whole story.

The fatal incident on the MV Teal Bay has highlighted some age-old issues with regard to mooring safety, argues John Southam in SeaSense column, our special column in association with the North P&I Club.

Two years after the Titanic sinking made headlines, Liverpool suffered another shipping tragedy, when the state-of-the-art passenger ship “Empress of Ireland” sank in St. Lawrence River, Canada, killing over 1,000 people.

Incidents are a sad reality of every hazardous workplace, such as a ship, and their investigation is a key part of most Safety Management Systems. However, this investigation is not a simple task as it requires strict handling with respect to crew members’ wellbeing on the aftermath of traumatic events.

It has been over a century after a ship collision shook the entire city of Halifax, killing almost 2,000 people and injuring more than 9,000. The blast was the largest human-made explosion at the time, releasing the equivalent energy of roughly 2.9 kilotons of TNT (12 TJ) and not surpassed until an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima 3 decades later.

It has been over 34 years since the Doña Paz ferry collided with a tanker, burnt and sank in Philippines waters five days before Christmas, adding the darkest page in the country’s maritime history.

John Southam and David Berkeley provide the legal perspective in the case of CMA CGM Libra in SeaSense column, our special column in association with the North P&I Club.

UK MAIB published its investigation report into a fatal accident on board the Gibraltar registered general cargo vessel Cimbris at Antwerp, Belgium on 14 July 2020.