Safety Flashes

The Australian National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority (NOPSA) has published the attached safety flash regarding a recent gangway failure.

A member has reported the loss of a lift bag to surface. During a surface-supplied diving operation from a dynamically positioned diving support vessel (DP DSV) in approximately 24 metres […]

A member has reported an incident during a ‘routine’ operation on a diving support vessel (DSV) where a diving bell had been surfaced from 140msw for maintenance. The bell had […]

A member has reported a fatal incident which occurred during anchor handling operations. The incident occurred on an anchor handling tug (AHT) whilst crew were attempting to disconnect an anchor […]

A member has reported an incident in which two holes were burnt in the deck of a vessel by a third party contractor during hot work. At the time of […]

A member has reported an incident in which an essential 440V circuit breaker onboard a vessel was inadvertently opened, in error, by an engineer. Whilst there was no injury, damage […]

A member has reported a serious failure of a shaft bearing housing on a hydraulic winch rented from a third-party contractor. During recovery of a load from the seabed, the […]

A member has reported an incident in which a rigger fell approximately one metre into the sea during rope access work. The rigger was able to climb back up to […]

A member has reported an incident in which an electrician received a 440V electric shock and sustained an electric burn on the left middle finger and an abrasion on the […]

Attached is a safety flyer issued by the UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch. The accident was subject to an MAIB investigation and the report is available on the MAIB website […]

A member has reported a number of failures of bail-out high pressure (HP) contents whips, at the area of the swage fitting. The exact cause of the failures had not […]

A member has reported that as part of bell maintenance activities, a diver and dive supervisor removed grating from the bell maintenance access pit and positioned it against the moonpool […]

A member has reported that, during the work on a floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO), a diver’s umbilical became fouled on a flexible riser. The riser had been […]

A member has reported an incident in which a remotely controlled vehicle (ROV) and its tether management system (TMS) were dropped to the seabed following failure of the umbilical termination. […]

A member has reported an incident in which a sub-contractor’s employee suffered a leg injury which was categorised as a lost time injury (LTI). Whilst working on offloading a vessel, […]

A member has reported an incident in which a rigger was fatally injured when a large steel frame, known as a cursor, fell from a height of two metres trapping […]

A fatal incident has been reported which, while it took place on a drilling rig, is also relevant to many vessel operations. During a pressure test with nitrogen, a pressure […]

A member has reported several occurrences over recent months of containers being inappropriately loaded and transported with contents in an unsecured and consequently unsafe manner and seeks to highlight this […]

A member has reported an incident in which a person was injured during a personnel transfer capsule operation. Three persons involved in pipeline commissioning activities on a recently installed jacket […]

A member has reported an incident in which a crew member was narrowly missed by the head of a fuse bolt which had been shot out of a remotely operated […]