Safety Flash
Near-miss: Mooring without port assistance
Near-miss: Mooring without port assistance
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 07/16
- Control of WorkLeadership and CultureMarine OperationsVessel and Mooring
- DrowningLeadership and safety culture
- Mooring operationsPersonnel transfer
- Safety communicationStop-work authority
- Marine industry
- Port and quaysideVessel
Summary
Repeated absence of shore-based mooring assistance led crews to jump between vessel and jetty, exposing them to falling overboard. A visiting assurance official stopped the practice and reported a near miss. The flash highlights complacency, un escalated concerns and subsequent management engagement to secure mooring support.
Classifications: Drowning; man overboard; person overboard.
Classifications: Leadership and safety culture; safety culture; safety leadership.
Classifications: Mooring operations; berthing; unmooring.
Classifications: Personnel transfer; crew transfer.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
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
Crew routinely jumped between a vessel and jetty to moor without assistance, creating repeated fall-overboard exposures.
IMCA SF 07/16. Themes: control of work, leadership and culture, marine operations, vessel and mooring.