Tag: ladders

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.

SOLAS Chapter V, Regulation 23 sets out the principal requirements for the rigging of pilot ladders. These provisions are also set out in the IMO/IMPA Required Boarding Arrangements for Pilot poster, featured ICS/IMPA Shipping Industry Guidance on Pilot Transfer Arrangements.

The safety of pilot boarding and disembarkation is a major headache for the shipping industry. Every year, many pilots are injured or died due to old (worn-out) or improperly rigged pilot ladder facilities, and/or the process of placing the pilot ladder results in injuries to the crew, notes Capt.Zhaoqingwei, Marine Safety Manager at DASIN SHIPPING PTE LTD.

ICS along with the International Maritime Pilots’ Association (IMPA) published the guide "Shipping Industry Guidance on Pilot Transfer Arrangements", updating maritime pilot transfer safety procedures amid industry concerns about poorly rigged ladders causing severe injuries or fatalities. 

From 1 January 2022, Flinders Ports will require visiting vessels and their Masters to take additional safety measures related to pilot ladders.

AMSA highlights the obligation of shipowners, operators, masters and crew to ensure safe arrangements are in place when embarking or disembarking a vessel using a pilot ladder.

Following an increase in marine pilot fatalities, American Club released the Good Catch guidance to raise seafarers' situational awareness.

The recently-released American Club Good Catch safety guidance focuses on the pilot ladder safety issues, due to an increase in marine pilot fatalities.

As part of American Club's Good Catch safety guidance, the club highlights the importance of pilot ladder safety following the increase in marine pilot incidents.

The US Coast Guard released a marine safety alert focusing on the  accommodation ladders.