Safety Flash
UK HSE: Motion Compensated Gangways Auto-Retraction
UK HSE: Motion Compensated Gangways Auto-Retraction
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 15/25
- Machinery and EquipmentMarine OperationsRegulation and LegislationWorking at Height
- Functional safety
- Personnel transfer
- Gangway
- Alarm managementFunctional testingRisk assessment
- Upstream oil and gas
Summary
This IMCA flash summarises UK HSE concerns about unplanned retraction of motion-compensated gangways following power or control-system failures. It explains why simultaneous alarms provide inadequate warning and outlines required reviews of gangway arrangements and automatic-function testing, alongside recommended technical risk assessment and rigorous assessment of operator overrides.
Classifications: Functional safety; safety instrumented systems; SIS.
Classifications: Personnel transfer; crew transfer.
Classifications: Gangway; walk-to-work gangway; W2W gangway.
Classifications: Alarm management.
Classifications: Functional testing; function test.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Summary
The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published Safety Notice ED03-2025
IMCA SF 15/25. Themes: machinery and equipment, marine operations, regulation and legislation, working at height.