Safety Flash 15/26
Click here to download the IMCA Safety Flash 15/26. Here are a few of the incidents covered;
NOPSEMA: Lifting operations dangerous occurrences and injuries
The Australian National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) has published a safety bulletin relating to lifting operations in the offshore industry
Crew member sustained hand injury during lifting operations
A crew member sustained a hand injury during a lifting operation involving a main engine cylinder head.
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Emergency escape hatch found blocked
During a management visit walk-around, an attempt was made to exit the steering room through the emergency escape hatch to the deck. However, the hatch could not be opened. After checking the hatch from the deck side, it was found that a fuel hose had been left on top of the emergency exit hatch and obstructed the hatch cover and prevented it from being opened. This created a serious unsafe condition, as personnel inside the steering room may have been unable to escape quickly in the event of an emergency.
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LTI – Shoulder strain when crew member was descending the stairs
Whilst stepping over the coaming of the weather tight door, they lost their footing on the top step at which point they reached out grabbing the door mechanism to try and stabilize themselves. As their hand remained fixed to the mechanism, both legs and lower body slipped off the top step. This resulted in their entire body weight pulling abruptly against their stationary left arm. The sudden drop created stress and a severe “wrenching” force on the shoulder joint, resulting in the injury.
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GPS jamming and spoofing – good practice example
A Member’s vessel in the Red Sea encountered GPS jamming. Due to the GPS signal anomaly, the vessel’s position on the ECDIS suddenly appeared to shift to a location near the coast, dozens of miles away from the actual position, and the GPS-based speed over the ground (SOG) also changed abnormally from approximately 12 knots to 39 knots.
The incident occurred while the Master was at the helm. The Master assessed the situation rapidly, immediately recognized the position jump phenomenon, and smoothly switched to manual navigation. All the deck officers, including the Master, had previously conducted training in “dead reckoning” (DR) navigation, as GPS jamming and spoofing incidents had been reported in the area.