12/2019
Important safety notice to users of certain Crosby shackle products. Crosby has prepared an Important Safety Notice for some specific Crosby 7/8” 6.5t shackles.

12/2019
Welder at work injured during close SIMOPS. A welder was hit and slightly injured by a lashing wire during lashing operations being conducted close by. Whilst all the deck crew were lashing reels, a welder was busy welding lashing eyes. The duty officer marked out the position for the lashing eyes.

12/2019
Raising awareness on safety barriers such as railings and gratings. The Transport Safety Investigation Bureau (TSIB) of Singapore has released Safety Flyer 2019/02 entitled The importance of ensuring proper inspection and maintenance regime.

12/2019
Unsafe boarding during unmooring operation. A vessel was departing from port when crew found it necessary to remove the mooring lines from the shoreside bollards with no safe un-boarding/boarding arrangements in place – instead clambering over the side.

12/2019
High potential incident – man injured while falling overboard (MOB). Whilst descending stairs to a boat-landing area on an offshore platform, a sub-contracted employee of one of our members tripped on a 2-inch discharge hose that had been laid across the base of a stairway.

12/2019
Man overboard – fall from pilot ladder. During boarding a vessel via pilot ladder from a service boat, an IT service technician lost his footing and fell from the second step of pilot ladder into the sea. He was rescued with the assistance of the crew of the service boat.

11/2019
Emergency stop pressed accidentally. It was discovered that a crew member, while passing near to the port azimuth thruster control panel in the engine control room, inadvertently hit the emergency stop button with his elbow, resulting in a stoppage of the thruster.

11/2019
Hand injury during lift operations. The employee who was in the process of retrieving the timber block from underneath the suspended pad sustained hand injuries when the pad fell.

11/2019
Crush injury to hand while attempting to secure crane hook. While attempting to secure a crane hook to the deck handrail with a polypropylene rope, a rigger’s right hand was caught between the hook shank and the handrail.

11/2019
Cabling in ROV hanger inadvertently severed by the ROV launch and recovery frame. During weekly testing of the vessel emergency firefighting pump, the engineer discovered that he could not start the pump.

11/2019
Main ROV lift wire umbilical and bullet parted. While an inspection class ROV was being recovered to deck within its tether management system (TMS) via an over-the-side hydraulic LARS system, the main lift wire parted and both the ROV and TMS fell to the seabed.

11/2019
High potential near miss: guide cone funnel dropped. An umbilical termination head (UTH) guide cone funnel fell from its sleeve connected to the UTH body.

11/2019
Emergency stop pressed accidentally. During DP operations a vessel lost its Port azimuth thruster. The vessel suspended DP operations and safely pulled out of the 500m zone to allow investigation.

11/2019
Snake on-board vessel. During a safety walk round, it was observed that a snake was on top of the anchor winch while vessel was at anchor near a port.

11/2019
Petzl Pixa lights as potential dropped objects. A member has noted that certain headlamps supplied for use with certain helmets, as used extensively for working at height in the offshore renewables sector, could come loose and fall.

11/2019
Use of surge protected devices on-board vessels. A surge protected extension lead failed resulting in it overheating and burning. Surveyors heard an audible ‘snap’ and then observed that three of their monitors had lost power.