Safety Alerts

Ten most recent alerts

Number: 15-10 Dated: 12/02/2015

Fire in Engine Room

A fire broke out in the engine room onboard a PSV when she was on passage to an offshore location. The vessel was manned by 14 crew, fortunately there were no personal injuries sustained throughout this incident. The

Number: 15-09 Dated: 11/02/2015

Spontaneous Combustion

We had an incident on a vessel recently that could have quickly escalated into a Galley fire during the night. The night watchman was carrying out his usual tasks and after washing the Galley tea towels, they went

Number: 15-08 Dated: 05/02/2015

Vessels Positioning

A helicopter aborted an approach to a fixed installation because a Supply vessel was positioned inside the ‘go-around’ and take-off flight path.

Number: 15-07 Dated: 05/02/2015

Painting the ends of capstans and windlasses

This safety alert is to advise members who may use capstans or windlasses, of the risk involving painting the ends of such equipment. Many recently audited ships have been found to have painted capstan or windlass drum ends

Number: 15-06 Dated: 05/02/2015

Hand injury stowing anchor chain

Recently we had an incident onboard one of our vessels where a crewman suffered a first aid injury to his hand. The crew were re-stowing the anchor chain after calibration in dry dock. They were trying to get

Number: 15-05 Dated: 05/02/2015

Cut Finger changing Mop Head

One of our crew has had a very painful accident that caused him to cut his finger. He was preparing to carry out a routine cleaning task and was in the process of changing a sponge mop head.

Number: 15-04 Dated: 05/02/2015

Safety barriers and guards

During a recent client visit on one our vessels, their representative was about to leave the vessel by the gangway, when he noticed that the vessels upper gangway point had been left with the guard rail open. (The

Number: 15-03 Dated: 13/01/2015

MoB during crew transfer between two ERRVs

One afternoon in November at approximately 14:00hrs a crew transfer was taking place between two company vessels. It was decided between the vessel Masters that the transfer would take place using the Daughter craft from one vessel, transferring

Number: 15-02 Dated: 13/01/2015

Dropped Object

One of our vessels has reported a dropped object incident while working deck cargo at a rig. The rig had a dual line crane (single whip, double block) and was using the double block at the time of

Number: 15-01 Dated: 13/01/2015

Dropped Object

The vessel was carrying out air dive operations when a piece of timber which was approximately 300mm x 100mm, fell 15 meters from the crane jib support to the Mezzanine Deck area below. The Crane was positioned outboard

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