Safety Flash
CHIRP: Crew vigilance prevents mooring incident
CHIRP: Crew vigilance prevents mooring incident
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 20/23
- CorrosionInspection and MaintenanceVessel and Mooring
- Human factorsStructural and asset integrity
- Inspection and maintenanceMooring operations
- Mooring fittingsMooring lines
- Safety communication
- Marine industry
- Port and quaysideVessel
Summary
A CHIRP event describes abrasion between mooring lines on a bulk carrier moving alongside a wharf in swell. Crew monitoring identified damage, and communication supported replacement and re-routing before the lines parted. The flash highlights teamwork and the importance of mooring fitting design and directional leads in limiting abrasion.
Classifications: Human factors; human performance; ergonomics.
Classifications: Structural and asset integrity; asset integrity; structural integrity.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Mooring operations; berthing; unmooring.
Classifications: Mooring fittings; cleats; bollards.
Classifications: Mooring lines; mooring rope; mooring wire.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Port and quayside; quayside; harbour; harbor.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
The Confidential Human Factors Incident Reporting Programme (CHIRP ) has shared an event in which the careful vigilance of vessel crew prevented a mooring incident
IMCA SF 20/23. Themes: corrosion, inspection and maintenance, vessel and mooring.