Safety Flash
Unsafe boarding of vessels
Unsafe boarding of vessels
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 33/16
- Line of FireMarine OperationsSlips, Trips and Falls
- Personnel transfer
- Marine industry
- Port and quaysideVessel
Summary
This flash describes repeated boarding by non-crew personnel through open ship-side doors when no gangway was deployed. In the latest incident, a classification society surveyor removed a safety chain and jumped aboard from the quayside during mooring, while the vessel’s engines and thrusters were still running.
Classifications: Personnel transfer; crew transfer.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Port and quayside; quayside; harbour; harbor.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
Non-crew personnel bypassed normal access arrangements by jumping aboard through open ship-side doors while the vessel was manoeuvring.
IMCA SF 33/16. Themes: line of fire, marine operations, slips, trips and falls.