Safety Flash
Lifeboat launch capability compromised
Lifeboat launch capability compromised
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 32/16
- Control of WorkEvacuation, Escape and Rescue
- LifeboatScaffoldWinch
- Evacuation, escape and rescue
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Summary
This safety flash describes scaffolding erected for subcontractor access around a lifeboat’s aft winch chain. A worksite visit identified an opening too small for the winch block and a supporting pole beneath the boards, both of which would have hindered launching or descent.
Classifications: Lifeboat; survival craft.
Classifications: Scaffold; scaffolding.
Classifications: Winch; winches.
Classifications: Evacuation, escape and rescue; EER; escape and rescue.
Summary
Scaffolding erected around a lifeboat winch and chain would have obstructed emergency launching.
IMCA SF 32/16. Themes: control of work, evacuation, escape and rescue.