Safety Flash
Importance of safety by design: Acoustic beacon damage in splash zone
Importance of safety by design: Acoustic beacon damage in splash zone
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 34/21
- Lifting OperationsMachinery and EquipmentStructural and Asset Integrity
- Structural and asset integrity
- Lifting operations
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
During tugger winch recovery, normal headache ball movement through the splash zone led to contact with a vessel fender and damage to an acoustic beacon. The flash identifies inadequate A-frame reach and a known design hazard, describing protective cage provision, design reviews and implemented modifications to increase clearance from the hull.
Classifications: Structural and asset integrity; asset integrity; structural integrity.
Classifications: Lifting operations; load lifting; hoisting.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
During recovery of tugger winches on an A-frame workstation, the headache ball came into contact with the vessel fender and damaged an acoustic beacon
IMCA SF 34/21. Themes: lifting operations, machinery and equipment, structural and asset integrity.