Safety Alerts

Access / Egress

Number: 25-14 Dated: 19/08/2025

Motion Compensated Gangways Auto-retraction

Re share of recent Safety Bulletin ED03-2025 as issued by UK HSE on the topic of motion compensated gangways auto-retraction.

Number: 25-09 Dated: 28/04/2025

Watertight Door Fatality

Reminder on the dangers of watertight doors after a fatality on a members vessel.

Number: 25-05 Dated: 25/03/2025

Safe Boarding Arrangements for Marine Pilots

Alert highlighting continued cases of defective / non-compliant pilot ladders and boarding arrangements.

Number: 25-01 Dated: 15/01/2025

Vessels Gangway Fell from Quay

Gangway fell from quayside resulting in personnel falling into harbour and sustaining injuries.

Number: 23-04 Dated: 31/03/2023

Slippery Steps

Crew member injured after slipping on doorstep

Number: 22-08 Dated: 20/04/2022

Finger Injury During Drills & Exercises

Severe injury to a crew members hand during vessel drills and exercises.

Number: 20-09 Dated: 05/11/2020

Using Weather Tight Doors

Injury to crew member when passing through bridge weather tight door.

Number: 19-10 Dated: 23/07/2019

LTI – Fractured Ankle

IP fractured ankle on accessing vessel via gangway

Number: 16-24 Dated: 12/10/2016

Unsafe Boarding of Vessels

Over the last year one of our members has received a number of reports from their fleet of individuals boarding vessels via means other than the ships gangway.

Number: 04-05 Dated: 29/03/2004

Foot Injury

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