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Personal Exposure Limit

Fatigue is a physiological state of reduced mental or physical performance capability, resulting from sleep loss or extended wakefulness, that can impair alertness and ability to safely operate or perform duties. Being Fatigued seriously impairs our vigilance and judgement, especially in critical …

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Manual Handling / Lifting

Manual handling is the second most common cause of injury at work. Manual handling is the transportation or support of a load by hand or bodily force. It includes lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling, moving and carrying a load

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Hearing

Exposure to noise at work can cause irreversible hearing damage. It is one of the most common health problems and can be difficult to detect as the effects build up gradually over time.

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Hand Safety

Whether gripping, moving or feeling, hands are critical to the majority of the physical work activity that we do. We must not take our hands for granted, as they can easily become injured through hazards such as: • Sharp objects • Heavy Objects • Pinch Points • Hot and cold items • Entanglement in r…

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Eye Safety

Damage to the eye has the potential to impact eyesight, therefore it is important that they are protected from hazards in order to avoid injury

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Ergonomics

Ergonomics is the ‘fit’ between people and their work. You should put people first, taking account of their capabilities and limitations to make sure that tasks, equipment, information and the environment fit each worker.

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CO2 firefighting systems

This Safety Alert / Lesson Learned has been raised to highlight an observation involving the CO2 firefighting system onboard a vessel. The vessel concerned found that during routine monthly inspection of the fixed CO2 system, significant corrosion was noted, this resulted in it not being possible to…

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Inoperable internal handle on helicopter door

An H175 aircraft arrived on a Not Permanently Attended Installation (NPAI) – as the platform is unmanned, no helideck crew meet the aircraft on arrival. The Helicopter Landing Operator (HLO) reported to the Offshore Installation Manager (OIM) he was unable to open the side door from inside the aircr…

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Safety Moment - Human Factors

This pack contains examples of events where human factors contributed to the incident. The applicable Human Factors subtopics are highlighted on each slide. Whilst not all the incidents occurred within our industry, the learnings remain applicable. You may wish to use this pack during safety meeting…

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Man overboard incident

An MSF members vessel had just come alongside its allocated berth, the deck watch had changed and had not been involved in the previous berthing toolbox talk but had received a comprehensive hand over from the outgoing watch. Backloaded deck cargo obscured the aft mooring activities from the bridge …

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Health and Safety Executive - Safety Notice: Offshore crane boom hoist rope failures

Target audience: All personnel involved in the operation, maintenance, and inspection of offshore cranes. Two incidents have occurred offshore, involving the failure of crane boom hoist ropes, resulting in the crane booms falling on the deck below. Duty holders are advised to ensure that:when high w…

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Contact between vessel in standby & offshore installation

During a period of standing by an offshore installation, the 1st Officer on the vessel took over the watch at midnight with 1.2 nautical miles to the installation. The vessel was set on a course towards the installation which allowed the incident to evolve. The 1st Officer attended administrative w…