Tag: lessons learned

As UK MAIB reports in its most recent Safety Digest, it was another busy day of operations for a workboat at an offshore wind farm. Sailing early, the workboat was due to transfer two teams to carry out maintenance tasks on two different wind turbines.

The Nautical Institute presents an incident where, a general cargo vessel had berthed and was discharging cargo from the upper port cargo hold, to provide lessons learned. 

As UK MAIB reports in its most recent Safety Digest, a general cargo vessel was preparing to depart port to allow another vessel to berth.

As UK MAIB reports in its most recent Safety Digest, on a fine summer evening, in slight sea conditions and good visibility, a pilot vessel headed out through the breakwaters.

A recent Safety Flash by the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA), focuses on an incident, in which a fatality occurred in January 2023, on an offshore worksite, whereby a worker fell overboard because of a dislodged section of polymer grating, commonly used in the offshore industry.

As UK MAIB reports in its most recent Safety Digest, at just after midnight on a calm autumn night with excellent visibility, an outbound cruise ship and an inbound roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) ferry passed 100m apart with a relative closing speed of 35 knots (kts), the equivalent of 5 seconds to a collision.

As UK MAIB reports in its most recent Safety Digest, a pilot was embarking a moored bunker tanker via its pilot ladder in calm conditions.

As UK MAIB reports in its most recent Safety Digest, a container ship was on passage. In the engine room, the electrician was pondering how to repair a fault with the ship’s ballast water treatment system (BWTS), which needed to operate on arrival into port the next day.

A recent Safety Flash by the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA), focuses on an incident in which a rigger suffered a serious injury when his finger got trapped between a sling and one of the forks on a fork-lift truck, to provide lessons learned.

As UK MAIB reports in its most recent Safety Digest, a bulk carrier was alongside in port late one afternoon. The cargo discharge had been completed and the second officer (2/O) and able seaman (AB) were standing on the midship port side catwalk, preparing for the loading of the next cargo by lowering the upper rails around the hold hatches.