Alert 4 Apr 2023 Slippery Steps During a general walk around a vessel crewmember suffered a foot injury while making his way out from the accommodation to the main deck. By unfortunate foot placement on the outside doorstep, and the step being wet with morning dew, the crewmembers heel slipped off hitting the deck corner with his … View Alert
Alert 4 Apr 2023 HSE Alert - Unsafe use of floor grating systems in offshore oil and gas wind generation installations Issue Sections of polymer floor grating systems, used on offshore oil and gas platforms, vessels and wind generation installations, can become dislodged. Workers and others are at risk of tripping on unsecured flooring or falling through the subsequent hole. Outline of the problem Investigations hav… View Alert
Learning Moment 4 Apr 2023 Failure to Investigate Failure to Learn - Animated moment This animated safety moment is based on a real incident that occurred within the Telecommunications industry. Although this incident occurred out with our industry, all learnings remain applicable. View Learning Moment
Alert 27 Mar 2023 Container door closed - injuring hand The task was for an individual to transfer materials between storage containers The doors to the storage container were already open when the IP arrived to unload the materials As the IP was exiting the container, they grabbed hold of the door frame and at this point , a gust of wind blew the door… View Alert
Alert 27 Mar 2023 Cracking in small bore piping due to vibration Two events occurred at the same facility associated with small bore piping failures resulting in a loss of primary containment Event 1 - an operator identified a gas leak from a bleed valve on a relief path from a natural gas booster compressor via visual observation during operator rounds. A leak c… View Alert
Alert 21 Feb 2023 Disposable Vape Self-Ignition Fire pre-alarm was raised on the Bridge fire detection panel and accepted by the Duty Officer. Phone call immediately received from crew member to the Bridge informing there is an incident with a disposable vape in his cabin, however no immediate danger. Master arrived in bridge and was informed the… View Alert
Alert 16 Feb 2023 Safety Critical Element (SCE) –Passive Fire Protection acceptance of repair materials and methods For: duty holders and application contractors with annual shutdown (turnaround) scheduling and management of change meetings for PFP. Offshore: - Offshore Installation Managers - Offshore Inspection Engineers - Fabric Maintenance Contractors Onshore: - HSE Managers - Technical Safety Engineers - In… View Alert
Alert 14 Feb 2023 Vessel Blackout at Sea Preparations for routine checks on one main engine were ongoing, the vessel Bridge was informed and had confirmed safe distance to all installations in the area. The preparations include activating the engine emergency stop for safety reasons, however the wrong emergency stop was accidentally activa… View Alert
Alert 7 Feb 2023 Dropped scaffold tube and wedge A 2’ scaffold tube with a right angle attached fell 25’ grazing an employee’s left shoulder and knee before landing on the ground in front of them. Findings:It was determined the band and wedge of the right angle had come loose over time due to vibration. Wedge on right angle holding the scaffold tu… View Alert
Alert 31 Jan 2023 Individual fell from height - Anchor Handling The incident occurred while disconnecting the anchor on the starboard side of a vessel. The riser chain was being prepared to be laid into the chain locker for stowage. Both anchor chain lockers were uncovered. The worker went to grab an endless wire sling near the open starboard forward chain locke… View Alert
Alert 31 Jan 2023 Tubular Load Strikes Vessel Light While transferring tubulars from one trailer to another using an onshore crane, the operator lost control of the load and was advised to land the swinging load onto the deck of vessel. In the process of doing this, the load struck one of the vessel lights damaging the bracket. To view, the full Mari… View Alert
Alert 25 Jan 2023 Dropped Object as a result of a Glass Reinforced Epoxy (GRE) Joint Failure Toward the completion of a firewater pump (FWP) performance test, a section of 12” Glass Reinforced Epoxy (GRE) weighing ~260kg, fell 4 metres after its bonded taper fit connections failed. One person was in the room at the time of the incident looking at the engine gauges - he shut down the FWP eng… View Alert