Safety Flash
Unsafe boarding during unmooring operation
Unsafe boarding during unmooring operation
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 28/19
- Control of WorkManagement of ChangeMarine OperationsVessel and Mooring
- Risk management
- Mooring operations
- Mooring lines
- Management of changeOperating and work proceduresRisk assessmentStop-work authority
- Marine industry
- Port and quaysideVessel
Summary
During departure from port, crew climbed over the vessel’s side to release shoreside mooring lines without safe boarding arrangements, despite a briefing on shore-based support. The flash identifies procedural, risk-assessment and change-management failures, and absent stop-work intervention. Lessons address crew acting as linesmen, advance contingency planning and assessment of changes.
Classifications: Risk management; risk evaluation.
Classifications: Mooring operations; berthing; unmooring.
Classifications: Mooring lines; mooring rope; mooring wire.
Classifications: Management of change; MOC; change management.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Stop-work authority; stop work; stop-work intervention.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Port and quayside; quayside; harbour; harbor.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
A vessel was departing from port when crew found it necessary to remove the mooring lines from the shoreside bollards with no safe un-boarding/boarding arrangements in place – instead clambering over the side
IMCA SF 28/19. Themes: control of work, management of change, marine operations, vessel and mooring.