Safety Flash
High potential near miss: AB slipped over the side during mooring operations
High potential near miss: AB slipped over the side during mooring operations
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 02/18
- Leadership and CultureMarine OperationsSlips, Trips and FallsVessel and Mooring
- Crushing and pinch pointsDrowningFalls from heightLeadership and safety cultureSlips, trips and falls
- Mooring operationsPersonnel transfer
- Emergency responseOperating and work proceduresOperational supervisionStop-work authority
- Marine industry
- Port and quaysideVessel
Summary
An able seaman slipped into the sea while jumping from a vessel to the quay during mooring. He held a fender, and the Master manoeuvred to prevent crushing and propeller exposure. The flash examines procedural violations, failure to intervene and management acceptance of an unsafe practice.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Drowning; man overboard; person overboard.
Classifications: Falls from height; fall from height.
Classifications: Leadership and safety culture; safety culture; safety leadership.
Classifications: Slips, trips and falls; same-level falls.
Classifications: Mooring operations; berthing; unmooring.
Classifications: Personnel transfer; crew transfer.
Classifications: Emergency response; emergency preparedness.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Operational supervision.
Classifications: Stop-work authority; stop work; stop-work intervention.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Port and quayside; quayside; harbour; harbor.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
During mooring operations, an Able Seaman (AB) jumped from the vessel to the quayside to receive the mooring ropes.
IMCA SF 02/18. Themes: leadership and culture, marine operations, slips, trips and falls, vessel and mooring.