Tag: MSF

The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) has issued a safety alert to draw lessons learned from an incident in which chemicals made contact with a cook's eyes onboard. 

Marine Safety Forum (MSF) has published a safety alert to inform of an incident where a patient was being transferred to a hospital bed when the 13-year-old stretcher cracked. 

The Marine Safety Forum issued a Safety Alert on an incident in which a cook sustained burns when lifting a pot of boiling water with a tea cloth to strain pasta.

The Marine Safety Forum issued a Safety Alert on an incident involving pre-lay anchor operations. During these operations, the decision was made to manually recover and reposition the UHMWPE fibre rope, which is designed to dissipate energy quickly and prevent whip lash if it snaps, from the vessel’s stopper pins.

The Marine Safety Forum published a Safety Alert on an incident where, during a deck cargo operation in port, the duty AB adjusted a bedding rope to clear the deck for the next lift.

The Marine Safety Forum published a Safety Alert on an incident where upon inspection it was discovered that CO2 bottles for the engine room fire suppression system still had their safety pins in. 

The Marine Safety Forum presents an incident where, during a routine cargo handling operation alongside a North Sea offshore installation, a Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) experienced a loss of all Dynamic Positioning (DP) position reference systems (PRS) which resulted in the PSV contacting the installation, causing minor damage to the vessel and installation

The Marine Safety Forum presents an incident where a gangway operator on a Service Operation Vessel sustained a compound fracture of the right foot when the telescoping gangway frame retracted over it while attempting to connect to a Wind Turbine Generator amid challenging vessel movements.

The Marine Safety Forum presents an incident where a crew member assisting with Breathing Apparatus (BA) sets accidentally released high-pressure air while opening a BA set valve, resulting in air entering his finger and causing swelling, to draw lessons learned. 

MSF provides lessons learned from an incident where vessel’s engineer was preparing equipment for treating fuel tanks with biocide.