Alert 1 Jul 2024 Serious Hand Injury Whilst Donning Breathing Apparatus During a vessels fire drill, the fire team were being assisted with donning their Breathing Apparatus (BA) sets. The assisting crewmember opened the BA set valve resulting in a release of high-pressure air, as a result of the high-pressure air release the assisting crew members finger was impregnate… View Alert
Alert 20 Jun 2024 Manual Handling - Person in Line of Fire A warehouse and yard worker was rolling a flex stabilizer on a sawhorse rack. One end of the tool dropped from the rack, causing the opposite end to fatally strike him. Why did it happen?The worker approached the flex stabilizer intending to move it along the sawhorse rack by rolling it. As the tool… View Alert
Alert 20 Jun 2024 Person injured during lifting of compressor A worker was crushed by heavy equipment under maintenance, when the vessel rolled slightly. On a very large vessel, a team of specialist contractors were working on a compressor in the engine room. The work required the use of chain blocks and other lifting equipment to lift the compressor which wei… View Alert
Alert 20 Jun 2024 Personnel exposed to hydrogen sulphide during maintenance Subcontractor personnel were exposed to a high concentration of Hydrogen sulphide (H₂S) for a short period during maintenance work in a vessel’s Well Treatment System (WTS) room. The incident occurred during annual maintenance work being conducted on the system's acid filter units. When the upper ve… View Alert
Alert 20 Jun 2024 Carriage of Methanol - Dangerous Goods - without proper certification Methanol was being transported from place to place offshore, without appropriate Dangerous Goods certification. Methanol is very flammable. The incident occurred during the refuelling of a LIDAR buoy at an offshore wind farm. This involved carrying methanol cannisters on board a vessel, recovering t… View Alert
Alert 20 Jun 2024 Dropped welding fume extraction hood During pipelay activities onboard a vessel, a welding fume extraction hood (which weighed 215kg) fell onto a work station below. A crew member working in the welding station was struck from behind by the extraction hood causing them to fall to the ground. If the person had been struck in a different… View Alert
Alert 20 Jun 2024 Swinging load after loss of position During backloading of an empty refrigerated container to a Pipe Supply Vessel (PSV), adverse weather conditions, combined with technical issues and the effect of high thrust wash, resulted in a loss of position of the PSV and an uncontrolled swinging load. There was no damage to equipment and no-one… View Alert
Learning Moment 20 Jun 2024 Prevention of Dropped Objects Did you know, dropped objects are 1 of the 3 most common causes of fatalities and serious injuries within many industrial sectors? The intention of this safety moment is to raise awareness of the hazards around dropped objects and how we can prevent them from occurring. Content: -Short video: Dropp… View Learning Moment
Alert 11 Jun 2024 Various Dropped Objects - Near Miss Incidents Three dropped object incidents were reported on assets. Although no personnel were harmed, such dropped objects have the potential to cause serious harm: Incident #1: A team of scaffolders were tasked with erecting scaffolding within the wellheads area of an offshore installation. As the team were p… View Alert
Alert 11 Jun 2024 Loose Scaffold Board – Wrong Coupler The scaffolding team on a North Sea installation observed a loose scaffold board on a habitat roof. An intervention was made before any harm could be caused because of the work environment conditions, e.g. adverse weather. The Scaffolding Focal Point observed the incorrect single coupler for securi… View Alert
Alert 11 Jun 2024 Finger Fracture During Manual Handling The scaffolding crew were tasked with dismantling a long-term scaffold structure. The task required scaffolding components to be passed from one individual to another. After being passed down a 4-metre ladder beam, the Injured Party (IP) carried the beam to the storage area then went to position th… View Alert
Alert 11 Jun 2024 Dropped Impact Gun A team of scaffolders were engaged in activities to enable the destruct of long-term scaffolding. As part of the work scope, a support scaffold was required for an exhaust. As the team were engaged in the erection of the support structure, a member of the work party inadvertently knocked an impact g… View Alert