Safety Flashes

There have been several incidents where tools and equipment have been left inside scaffold tubes that are part of a scaffold structure. The picture is from an incident where a […]

A member has recently issued a reminder to its employees of that company’s driving policy. Members may find the points below useful. It is understood that vehicular incidents and people […]

Further to information given in the first IMCA pocket safety card Manual handling: Watch your back), a member has submitted the following notes which members may find useful: “The phrase […]

Further to information provided in information note Firefighting foam on helidecks, we have been provided with the following information arising from a foam sample test onboard a vessel with a […]

Further to reports of counterfeit shackles appearing in West African and European markets (see Safety Flash 11/04 (Copies of Crosby shackles)), a member has reported ‘many counterfeit shackles and other […]

A member has advised that while inspecting shackles in West Africa, it became evident several copies of Crosby shackles have been introduced to the marketplace. These shackles are said to […]

A member has reported that a DP diving support vessel was in the midst of a diving operation when it rapidly moved off location by some 107 metres from the […]

A member has reported an incident which occurred while a yard rigger was preparing to lift some pipes from ground level. A sudden lightning strike struck the shore crane’s jib […]

Attached is a safety circular issued by the Singapore Ministry of Manpower, which has been passed to us by a member. Although the notice is from last year, the company […]

A member has reported an incident involving the uncontrolled decompression of a submersible decompression chamber (SDC) during diving operations. The three man bell vented to surface from 175 fsw when […]

A member reports that a diver, whilst working on deck, suffered a severe head injury while attempting to align two 8″ flanges on the deck of a DSV. The assembly […]

A member has reported that a man-way trunk and its adjacent entry lock on a hyperbaric chamber were depressurised to surface when a fitting on the man-way was struck by […]

A member has reported an incident while a pipe handling frame (PHF) was being lowered to a depth of 100 metres from a barge using its starboard crane when a […]

While performing a task during a saturation dive, a man inhaled a 45mm diameter neoprene component from a diving helmet. The component has been identified by the supplier as a […]

IMCA has been passed a copy of the attached safety alert issued by the European Industrial Gases Association (EIGA). A number of recent incidents have been reported in various locations […]

IMCA has received the attached Caution Bulletin (number 1 of 2004) issued by Kirby Morgan Dive Systems relating to possible damage to emergency valve main body between male pipe threads […]

A member has reported the following serious incident which occurred aboard one of its vessels. It has been categorised by the company as ‘near miss fatality’ – fortunately the only […]

A member has reported the following information relating to an incident which occurred on one of its vessels fitted with a Huisman crane, which is considered important for all cranes […]

We have received reports from members of four separate incidents of underwater explosions occurring when oxy-arc cutting techniques have been in use: A diver was making corner holes in the […]

A member company has reported a near miss which occurred recently when a fitting failed due to corrosion. This was part of the hydraulic system for the handling of the […]