Alert 9 Apr 2025 Diver lifted off seabed A diver was lifted off the seabed when their umbilical was caught by a diving bell clump weight adjustment prior to bell recovery. When moving from the bell to the worksite, a bight of the Starboard Diver 2’s umbilical fouled on the port bell clump weight. When the port bell was raised to a short ma… View Alert
Alert 9 Apr 2025 Very serious leg injury during crane operations The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) published Accident Investigation Report 11/2024 into an incident where a crew person was seriously injured while operating a crane. On 16 August 2022, the second officer of the UK registered survey and supply vessel Kommandor Orca sustained crush in… View Alert
Alert 9 Apr 2025 Person fell in engine room and injured head An oiler was injured when working alone in the engine room. He was moving a heavy cylinder head into position so that it could be lifted using a chain block. He used a pipe to pivot the cylinder to move it. At the same time, he was standing in an elevated area and his back was facing a lower area. T… View Alert
Alert 9 Apr 2025 Cook got chemicals in eye The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) published Safety Alert 24-10 relating to an incident in which a cook got chemicals splashed in the eye. The incident occurred during the routine cleaning of the galley after dinner service was complete. The vessel cook used Foaming Oven Cleaner which contained Sodium Hy… View Alert
Alert 3 Apr 2025 Potential Dropped Object During routine lifting operations in the North Sea, a container was hoisted from the vessel's main deck to the installation cargo deck. Upon landing, the bosun noticed significant corrosion on a tie-back handle mount, which caused the tie-back to loosen. This could have resulted in a dropped object … View Alert
Alert 3 Apr 2025 Spill During Bulk Transfer During offshore operations the vessel was lined up to receive Offshore Contaminated Bulk Liquid (Slops) from the rig. When the transfer started the bridge crew noticed a spray / mist from the strainer on the port side. An “All stop” was called and rig quickly stopped the transfer. Approximately 4 li… View Alert
Alert 3 Apr 2025 Crew transfer vessel (CTV) drifts onto turbine tower A CTV drifted into and hit a nearby structure at 0.5 knots. A crew transfer from a CTV to a Service Operation Vessel (SOV) was successfully completed. The SOV was 180 metres from a wind turbine generator (WTG) on the field. The CTV moved away from the SOV and propulsion controls were set to zero, an… View Alert
Alert 3 Apr 2025 LTI: Fall from height during FRC maintenance A worker fell 2.3 m to deck from a small boat in the davit, and broke a leg as a result. The incident occurred on a laid-up vessel when workers were re-installing an engine which had been previously removed from the Fast Rescue Boat (FRC). Workers used the crane to lift the engine from the quay int… View Alert
Alert 3 Apr 2025 Near miss: narrowly avoided fall from height due to missing deck gratings After a grating was removed, the Chief Engineer, on the way to inspect the work, nearly fell 4-5m. During a docking, a grating was removed from a mezzanine level in the bow thruster space to allow lifting of machinery components from the bottom plates. Signs and barriers were installed at the bottom… View Alert
Alert 3 Apr 2025 A broken stretcher could have led to injury The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) published Safety Alert 24-09 relating to a broken stretcher. A medevac from a vessel required a patient to be transferred to the hospital. As the patient was being moved to a hospital bed, the stretcher cracked into two pieces with the patient on it. The patient was no… View Alert
Alert 3 Apr 2025 Positive story: Excellent galley hygiene and housekeeping On a walk-around audit, a member highlights very high standards of housekeeping and hygiene in the galley on one of its vessels. A high level of cleanliness was established even in difficult to access places.There was proper segregation by allocation of plastic boxes on shelves in freezers to avoid … View Alert
Alert 2 Apr 2025 Fauna Entanglement The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority of Australia, NOPSEMA, has published an environmental alert relating to aquatic animals getting tangled up in subsea equipment. During a subsea survey, the operator of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) noticed a shark cau… View Alert