Safety Flash
MSF: Gangway detached from vessel
MSF: Gangway detached from vessel
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 14/13
- Marine OperationsStructural and Asset IntegrityWorking at Height
- Mechanical failureStructural and asset integrity
- Gangway
- Positive retention and reliable securing
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
This safety flash summarises a Marine Safety Forum incident involving a gangway platform detaching from a vessel. The platform and gangway dropped approximately 0.5–1 m before remaining suspended by securing ropes and a safety net. Further incident details were available on request from the Forum.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Structural and asset integrity; asset integrity; structural integrity.
Classifications: Gangway; walk-to-work gangway; W2W gangway.
Classifications: Positive retention and reliable securing.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
The Marine Safety Forum has published safety flash 13-23 regarding an incident in which the gangway platform got detached from the vessel, causing the platform and the gangway to drop approximately 0.5-1 m until it was left hanging by the securing ropes and the safety net.
IMCA SF 14/13. Themes: marine operations, structural and asset integrity, working at height.