Tag: lessons learned

As UK MAIB reports in its most recent Safety Digest, a general cargo vessel was preparing to depart port to allow another vessel to berth.

As UK MAIB reports in its most recent Safety Digest, on a fine summer evening, in slight sea conditions and good visibility, a pilot vessel headed out through the breakwaters.

A recent Safety Flash by the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA), focuses on an incident, in which a fatality occurred in January 2023, on an offshore worksite, whereby a worker fell overboard because of a dislodged section of polymer grating, commonly used in the offshore industry.

As UK MAIB reports in its most recent Safety Digest, at just after midnight on a calm autumn night with excellent visibility, an outbound cruise ship and an inbound roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) ferry passed 100m apart with a relative closing speed of 35 knots (kts), the equivalent of 5 seconds to a collision.

As UK MAIB reports in its most recent Safety Digest, a pilot was embarking a moored bunker tanker via its pilot ladder in calm conditions.

As UK MAIB reports in its most recent Safety Digest, a container ship was on passage. In the engine room, the electrician was pondering how to repair a fault with the ship’s ballast water treatment system (BWTS), which needed to operate on arrival into port the next day.

A recent Safety Flash by the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA), focuses on an incident in which a rigger suffered a serious injury when his finger got trapped between a sling and one of the forks on a fork-lift truck, to provide lessons learned.

As UK MAIB reports in its most recent Safety Digest, a bulk carrier was alongside in port late one afternoon. The cargo discharge had been completed and the second officer (2/O) and able seaman (AB) were standing on the midship port side catwalk, preparing for the loading of the next cargo by lowering the upper rails around the hold hatches.

A recent Safety Flash by the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) focuses on an incident in which, a mooring rope (weighing 2.9kg per metre) hit a crew person and caused a broken arm.

A recent Safety Flash by the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) focuses on an incident in which, a rope access technician sustained an injury to the right shoulder while accessing the vessel transom port-side platform, following buoyancy module pad retrieval from the pipe string.