Safety Flash
Near miss/positive: Crew exercised stop work on new gangway
Near miss/positive: Crew exercised stop work on new gangway
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 18/20
- Inspection and MaintenanceLeadership and CultureStructural and Asset Integrity
- Leadership and safety cultureSlips, trips and fallsStructural and asset integrity
- Inspection and maintenancePersonnel transfer
- Gangway
- Pre-use checksSafety communicationStop-work authority
- Marine industry
Summary
Following an initial transfer test, a captain stopped use of a newly installed gangway after identifying a trip hazard and minor hydraulic leak. Further inspection revealed cracks in welding seams. The flash highlights pre-use inspection, stop-work authority without reprisal, and quarantine of unsafe equipment pending corrective action.
Classifications: Leadership and safety culture; safety culture; safety leadership.
Classifications: Slips, trips and falls; same-level falls.
Classifications: Structural and asset integrity; asset integrity; structural integrity.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Personnel transfer; crew transfer.
Classifications: Gangway; walk-to-work gangway; W2W gangway.
Classifications: Pre-use checks; pre-use inspection.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Stop-work authority; stop work; stop-work intervention.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Summary
A newly installed gangway was found inadequate and unsafe.
IMCA SF 18/20. Themes: inspection and maintenance, leadership and culture, structural and asset integrity.