Safety Flash
Positive findings and good practices
Positive findings and good practices
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 08/25
- IsolationLeadership and CultureSlips, Trips and FallsVessel and Mooring
- FireMooring line snapbackSlips, trips and falls
- Inspection and maintenanceMooring operations
- Lockout and tagoutSafety communication
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
This safety flash shares positive vessel practices covering machinery lockout/tagout, mooring-deck markings and engine-room housekeeping. It highlights protection against unexpected energisation, recommends warnings about potential snapback across the entire mooring deck, and describes how orderly engine rooms reduce slip, trip and fire hazards while supporting maintenance.
Classifications: Fire; fire safety.
Classifications: Mooring line snapback; snap-back; snapback; mooring line recoil.
Classifications: Slips, trips and falls; same-level falls.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Mooring operations; berthing; unmooring.
Classifications: Lockout and tagout; LOTO; lockout/tagout.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
A member highlights some examples of positive findings and good practices on board some of their vessels.
IMCA SF 08/25. Themes: isolation, leadership and culture, slips, trips and falls, vessel and mooring.