Safety Flash
Safety Flashes – a review of 2024
Safety Flashes – a review of 2024
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 01/25
- Dropped ObjectsLearning from IncidentsLine of Fire
- Dropped objectsHand and finger injuriesLearning from incidentsLine of fireMechanical failure
- Lifting operationsWorking at height
- Stop-work authority
Summary
Reviews IMCA’s 2024 Safety Flashes, covering 88 member-shared events and 33 drawn from public sources. Highlights line-of-fire exposure, hand and finger injuries, bypassed safety controls, lifting, working at height, equipment failures and dropped objects. Includes a reference list of the year’s flashes and reinforces stop-work authority.
Classifications: Dropped objects; falling objects; DROPS.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Learning from incidents; incident learning; lessons learnt; lessons learned.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Lifting operations; load lifting; hoisting.
Classifications: Working at height; work at height.
Classifications: Stop-work authority; stop work; stop-work intervention.
Summary
This is a short summary of the 24 IMCA Safety Flashes published during 2024.
IMCA SF 01/25. Themes: dropped objects, learning from incidents, line of fire.