Safety Flash
UK MAIB: Man overboard – unguarded opening
UK MAIB: Man overboard – unguarded opening
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 13/24
- Emergency ResponseSlips, Trips and FallsVessel and Mooring
- DrowningFalls from heightSlips, trips and falls
- Mooring operations
- Evacuation, escape and rescueFall preventionRisk assessmentStop-work authority
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
A crew member preparing for berthing overbalanced while swinging a heaving line around a pillar and fell through an unguarded opening. Crew recovered the person using a line; medical assessments found no injury. The flash highlights dynamic risk assessment, stopping unsafe work and subsequent installation of a railing.
Classifications: Drowning; man overboard; person overboard.
Classifications: Falls from height; fall from height.
Classifications: Slips, trips and falls; same-level falls.
Classifications: Mooring operations; berthing; unmooring.
Classifications: Evacuation, escape and rescue; EER; escape and rescue.
Classifications: Fall prevention; edge protection; guardrails.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Stop-work authority; stop work; stop-work intervention.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch has shared a safety update on a member of crew who fell overboard.
IMCA SF 13/24. Themes: emergency response, slips, trips and falls, vessel and mooring.