Safety Alert: Injury resulting in amputation
During operations to load a container to a vessel deck, a ground lock was seen to have moved at [...]
Safety Alert: Mooring launch crushed against the side of a container vessel
The aft mooring launch sat at the stern of a containership, waiting for the third line to be lowered [...]
Safety Alert: Familiarising Fire Emergency Responders with Vessels, Ports and Terminals
The investigation has started into the fire on board the Grande Costa D'Avorio - in which two firefighters tragically [...]
Safety Alert: Risk assessment, safe system of work and adequate supervision required to prevent unsafe custom and practice in forklift truck operations
An employee’s leg was crushed by forklift truck when he was struck on a pedestrian crossing. The worker had [...]
Safety Alert: HSE safety notice Hydrogen Sulphide
There have been a number of significant incidents globally in recent years relating to hydrogen sulphide, either during the [...]
Safety Alert: Uncontrolled movement of spreader bar
A vessel was set up alongside a barge in preparation for the subsea deployment of a 16″ (40cm) spool. [...]
Safety Alert: right lower right leg severed in mooring incident
German Federal Maritime Casualty Investigation report 6/22 examines an incident where a deckhand’s foot became caught in the eye [...]
Safety Alert: fumigant poisoning fatality on board a bulk carrier
17 May 2022, bulk carrier Jupiter was at anchor. An ordinary seafarer collapsed while carrying out a routine pre-discharge [...]
Safety Alert: HSE safety notice – LPG forklift truck fire risk
The UK Health & Safety Executive has issued a safety notice after becoming aware of a number of fires [...]
Safety Alert: Preventing movement of lorries whilst they are being loaded
An employee died while loading lorry. The victim was operating a forklift truck at the company’s site and was [...]