Safety Flash
BSEE: A warning on tagline entanglement
BSEE: A warning on tagline entanglement
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 15/23
- Crane and RiggingLifting OperationsLine of Fire
- EntanglementLine of fire
- Lifting operations
- CraneHand tools
- Safety communicationStop-work authority
- Vessel
Summary
This safety flash summarises four offshore incidents in which workers became entangled in taglines and were lifted, without injury. BSEE recommendations address hands-free alternatives, anti-tangle lines, line condition and length, safe handling and retrieval, clear work areas, and agreed communications before lifting.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Lifting operations; load lifting; hoisting.
Classifications: Crane; cranes.
Classifications: Hand tools; hand-held tools; handheld tools.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Stop-work authority; stop work; stop-work intervention.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
The United States Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has published Safety Alert 461 relating to recent tagline entanglements which have resulted in several High Potential near misses
IMCA SF 15/23. Themes: crane and rigging, lifting operations, line of fire.