Safety Flash
Three fatalities: Stored energy; Falling objects; Traffic management
Three fatalities: Stored energy; Falling objects; Traffic management
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 14/19
- Dropped ObjectsHot Work and FireVehicles and DrivingWorking at Height
- Crushing and pinch pointsDropped objectsLine of fire
- Vehicles and driving
- Hose
- Contractor managementExclusion zonesOperational supervisionRisk assessment
- Construction
- Port and quayside
Summary
This flash summarises three fatal workplace incidents involving a whipping concrete delivery hose, collapsing plastic bale stacks and reversing mobile plant. It reports failures in exclusion-zone enforcement, contractor oversight, secure storage, risk assessment and pedestrian–vehicle segregation, and points members towards related IMCA safety materials.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Dropped objects; falling objects; DROPS.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Vehicles and driving; driving; road transport.
Classifications: Hose; flexible hose.
Classifications: Contractor management; contractor assurance.
Classifications: Exclusion zones; red zones; restricted access zones.
Classifications: Operational supervision.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Construction; construction industry.
Classifications: Port and quayside; quayside; harbour; harbor.
Summary
The flash directs members to guidance addressing fatality risks from stored energy, falling objects, hot work and traffic management.
IMCA SF 14/19. Themes: dropped objects, hot work and fire, vehicles and driving, working at height.