Alert 16 Feb 2024 Are your emergency procedures and your emergency equipment good enough? The United States Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has published Safety Alert 469 relating to readiness for medical evacuation and dealing with emergency hazards. An inspection of offshore sites in the Gulf of Mexico revealed: Inconsistencies in the documentation and recording o… View Alert
Alert 9 Feb 2024 Working With/Near Pressurised Systems - Person in Line of Fire A worker was investigating a known below ground air leak in a pump assembly at an oily water detention pond. The pump assembly is located in close proximity to the pond and is used to skim oil from the edge of the pond. The worker was clearing some surface rock and soil from around pipework to ident… View Alert
Alert 1 Feb 2024 What are you doing to ensure that light vehicles are operating safely? While travelling to site in a Light Vehicle the driver noted that the brakes were not operating normally. The driver was only getting braking effect at the very limit of pedal travel. Upon arrival at site the driver inspected the vehicle and discovered that the brake line support bracket was not att… View Alert
Alert 25 Jan 2024 Deep fat fryer fire Catering crew had a lucky escape after switching on the galley equipment electrical isolators to start preparing for lunch. The supply breaker to the deep fat fryers tripped while the equipment was heating up and the engineers were called to reset it. Two of the deep fat fryers had no oil in them an… View Alert
Alert 25 Jan 2024 Engineer scalded The MSF published Safety Alert 23-14 in which an engineer received severe scalding injuries when working in the engine room. The incident occurred during operations on a platform supply vessel (PSV). The engine alarm system was activated due to low level in the high temperature cooling water circui… View Alert
Alert 25 Jan 2024 Forklift knocked spooler bar onto person's leg While helping with spooling operations at a third-party yard, a person was injured in the lower leg, when a forklift truck struck the edge of a spooler bar causing it to roll onto his legs, resulting in soft tissue damage. The injured person was working on a spooling winch, with the spooler bar posi… View Alert
Alert 25 Jan 2024 Person injured going down ladder A person was descending the fixed ladder of a carousel manhole. He lost his footing on the last three rungs, approximately 87 cm from the flooring. Falling backward, his helmet came off, and his head struck the edge of a steel structure and he was injured. Immediate medical attention was provided on… View Alert
Alert 25 Jan 2024 Day Signal mast broke off and fell to deck On a offshore field support vessel waiting on poor weather and experiencing high winds, the Day Signal mast on the roof of the wheelhouse broke off and part of it weighing 35kg, fell 16m to the main deck. The weather was deteriorating and Hs (Significant Wave Height) was over 3m. The bridge team ha… View Alert
Alert 25 Jan 2024 Wind Wall Cladding Dropped Object A piece of external cladding fell from the North-West corner of the drilling derrick middle stem, weighing 2.25 Kg and measuring 1.92m by 0.11m. It landed on the drill floor, 34 meters below. No persons was on the drill floor, and no drilling or crane operations were taking place at the time. During… View Alert
Alert 18 Jan 2024 Workboat collision with wind turbine platform A workboat collided with a turbine platform in an offshore wind farm, causing injuries to one of the crew and minor damage to the workboat itself. The incident happened during transfer of two teams to carry out maintenance tasks on two different wind turbines. The master set minimum power ahead and … View Alert
Alert 18 Jan 2024 Chain hoist paid out unsupervised near running main engine An electric chain hoist on the beam above one of the main engines in a vessel, was left unattended after use. The chain hook paid out and coiled the chain onto the running main engine close to the generator drive shaft. The incident occurred when the chain hoist was being used to lower spare parts r… View Alert
Alert 18 Jan 2024 Leak in hot water system for saturation divers During saturation diving operations between bell runs it was noted that Divers Hot Water Unit #2 had a water leak. The leak was investigated and located, but was found to be in a place with very poor access. There was a small hole in a pipe, which on investigation was found to be a bigger hole under… View Alert