Safety Flash
Unsafe mooring practices
Unsafe mooring practices
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 18/17
- Marine OperationsVessel and Mooring
- Entanglement
- Mooring operations
- Operator displays and control interfacesWinch
- Operational supervision
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
A vessel inspection identified ropes attached to mooring winch levers for improvised remote operation. The flash highlights unintended activation, crew entanglement and inadequate winch control. It recommends sufficient personnel supervised by a certified officer for equipment handling, communications and directing the winchman.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Mooring operations; berthing; unmooring.
Classifications: Operator displays and control interfaces.
Classifications: Winch; winches.
Classifications: Operational supervision.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
During a routine marine inspection of a vessel it was observed that rope lines had been attached to the mooring winch control levers to facilitate ‘remote’ operation of the winches.
IMCA SF 18/17. Themes: marine operations, vessel and mooring.