Safety Flash
Snagging damage during lifting operations
Snagging damage during lifting operations
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 05/12
- Dropped ObjectsLifting Operations
- Risk management
- Lifting operations
- Lifting planRisk assessment
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
This safety flash describes damage to a platform supply vessel during the lifting of equipment onto an offshore installation. The load caught on a walkway. The source attributes the incident to a lift plan and risk assessment that did not identify all relevant hazards.
Classifications: Risk management; risk evaluation.
Classifications: Lifting operations; load lifting; hoisting.
Classifications: Lifting plan; lift planning.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
A suspended load snagged on a walkway because the lift plan and risk assessment omitted relevant hazards.
IMCA SF 05/12. Themes: dropped objects, lifting operations.