Safety Flash
Vessel collided with platform
Vessel collided with platform
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 11/24
- Human FactorsMarine Operations
- Human factorsVessel collision
- Dynamic positioningNavigation
- Navigation and positioning equipment
- Alarm managementJob safety analysisOperating and work proceduresSafety communication
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
A vessel waiting on weather collided with an unmanned, unlit platform while using joystick auto heading mode. Nobody was injured and damage was minor. The flash examines distracted watchkeeping, position monitoring and unset navigation alarms, and describes revised DP checklists, watchkeeping analysis and restrictions on non-watchkeeping duties.
Classifications: Human factors; human performance; ergonomics.
Classifications: Vessel collision; ship collision; marine allision.
Classifications: Dynamic positioning; DP; DP operations.
Classifications: Navigation; vessel navigation; passage planning.
Classifications: Navigation and positioning equipment; ECDIS; AIS; chart plotters.
Classifications: Alarm management.
Classifications: Job safety analysis; JSA; job hazard analysis; JHA.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
A vessel was waiting on weather when it collided with an unmanned and unlit platform.
IMCA SF 11/24. Themes: human factors, marine operations.