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Safer Together - Lifting - Person in line of fire

An unexpected shift of casings occurred while offloading them from a vessel. The vessel was in position under the port crane and cargo operations commenced with three crew members on deck. The first two lifts were successfully completed. When preparing for the crane hook to come down for the third …

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Lifejacket Purge Prevention Cap

During Helicopter operations a shared flight landed on helideck. Passengers from another platform were reboarding the helicopter after a refuel, the HDA observed 1 of the passengers still had a purge prevention cap on their life jacket. These caps are fitted when they are in the transport bags and …

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IMCA - Container door opened during transit

A third-party workshop container containing equipment was offloaded from a vessel. Whilst in transit back to the supplier the truck driver noticed the container door swing open whilst the truck was moving. The truck driver was able to pull over safely and proceeded to secure the container door with …

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IMCA - Dive chamber procedures and operations

Following a surface decompression dive to 32m on air, the diver entered the outer lock of the decompression chamber within the allotted surface interval. The chamber operator recompressed the diver in the outer lock of the chamber to 15m. Two minutes after reaching depth, the chamber operator starte…

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IMCA - Near Miss - High voltage ace inside tether termination manifold

A high voltage arc occurred inside a ROV tether termination manifold. The ROV HPU Breaker tripped during the return of the ROV to the TMS. Initial investigation into the trip was conducted and findings indicated no hard fault was present. The ROV crew performed a reset of the breakers and restarted …

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IMCA - Diver sustains laceration to hand

The incident occurred during air/nitrox diving at 18m depth. A diver was assigned to retrieve tooling from the forward downline, which had over 2m of slack to accommodate vessel movement. The tooling was dispatched via the messenger but exceeded the acceptable depth range within the dive table due …

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Wireline mast column stop plate falls 65ft

As the 90ft Wireline Mast was rigged up in preparation for operations, a dropped object was reported within the restricted access area. The area was secured and a sweep of the worksite performed, leading to the discovery of a mast column stop plate and four sheared 12mm HEX bolt heads, with a furthe…

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Breathing Apparatus Service and Maintenance Competency

An engineer was tasked with carrying out routine BA maintenance for a new client. The engineer was informed that the previous maintenance had been carried out annually for over a decade by a local provider - with no reported issues. Several BA sets were found to be defective, requiring repairs and p…

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Telehandler forks made contact with powerline

While respooling flexline, telehandler forks contacted a 3rd party 21.6kV power line, energising the telehandler and causing a fire. The telehandler operator exited uninjured. A second crew member approached with a fire extinguisher, which the operator took and used. The second crewmember move…

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Potential Dropped Objects (PDOs) returned with units

In the offshore environment Potential Dropped Objects (PDO’s) are a major safety risk as the transportation of units is normally completed using cranes and lifting items great heights. This poses the risk of items falling and striking personnel in the vicinity. Over the years, many PDO’s have been d…

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Smart glasses and filming devices offshore

What Happened? Footage has been shared of an offshore installation on a social media platform, believed to have been filmed using a face mounted personal electronic device. Footage was recorded on a helicopter flight and outside of accommodation module which is out with mobilisation & control of…

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Serious foot injury on walk-to work gangway

The gangway of a walk-to-work vessel was connected to a satellite platform Two operators crossed the gangway first, as per normal procedure. The third person (IP) was in the process of crossing the gangway when a red light was signaled, indicating the request to return to the vessel. The red light …