Safety Flash
Near miss: Emergency stop pressed accidentally
Near miss: Emergency stop pressed accidentally
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 26/19
- Human FactorsMachinery and Equipment
- Human factors
- Dynamic positioning
- Operator displays and control interfaces
- Human-centred design
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
A vessel’s port azimuth thruster stopped during dynamic positioning when a passing crew member accidentally struck its emergency stop with his elbow. The vessel safely withdrew from the 500m zone. The flash identifies ineffective switch guarding and calls for similar emergency stop buttons across vessels to be identified and replaced.
Classifications: Human factors; human performance; ergonomics.
Classifications: Dynamic positioning; DP; DP operations.
Classifications: Operator displays and control interfaces.
Classifications: Human-centred design.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
During DP operations a vessel lost its Port azimuth thruster.
IMCA SF 26/19. Themes: human factors, machinery and equipment.