Safety Flash
Unsafe personnel transfer – man overboard
Unsafe personnel transfer – man overboard
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 28/21
- Control of WorkMarine OperationsSlips, Trips and Falls
- DrowningSlips, trips and falls
- Personnel transfer
- Personal protective equipment
- Stop-work authority
- Marine industry
- Port and quaysideVessel
Summary
A diver slipped while boarding a pilot boat using a quayside fender. His assisting supervisor also lost balance, and both jumped into the water. Their life-jackets inflated and neither was injured. The flash identifies unsuitable access and unexercised stop-work authority, urging safe access arrangements and renewed emphasis on stopping unsafe work.
Classifications: Drowning; man overboard; person overboard.
Classifications: Slips, trips and falls; same-level falls.
Classifications: Personnel transfer; crew transfer.
Classifications: Personal protective equipment; PPE; personal protection equipment.
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 diver and supervisor fell into the water while using an unsuitable quayside fender for personnel transfer.
IMCA SF 28/21. Themes: control of work, marine operations, slips, trips and falls.