Safety Alert: MAIB report on fatal crush on RoRo cargo vessel
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published a report into the fatal crush accident during cargo operations [...]
Safety Alert: Portable appliance electrical safety
What happened: A high potential incident occurred at a member’s premises when the plug of a portable heater caught [...]
Safety Alert: Unplanned lift descent
What happened: On 21 September 2024, a near miss was reported due to an unplanned descent of a [...]
Safety Alert: Mobile harbour crane cracks
What happened: During routine inspections, cracks were discovered in the diagonals on the booms of two mobile harbour [...]
Safety Alert: Mooring operative struck by mooring line
What happened: During mooring operations of a cruise vessel, the pilot advised that the vessel would begin to [...]
Safety Alert: fatality of a crew member and the collapse of two other crew due to heat exhaustion
On 27 July 2023, a bulk carrier was berthing at the port of Mesaieed, Qatar. Whilst the first [...]
Safety Alert: Health hazard to a dock worker due to electric shock when connecting a refrigerated container on board a container ship
A dock worker connecting a deck stowed refrigerated container to the ship’s power supply received an electric shock [...]
Safety Alert: Slow speed gantry crane derailment
What happened: A rail mounted gantry crane, servicing visiting hauliers, had begun trolleying when the driver heard a [...]
Safety Alert: Cargo Stability
What happened: During the discharge of paper reels from a cargo hold, stevedores discovered that some reels in [...]
Safety Alert: Shipboard firefighting by shore based firefighters
On 5 July 2023, a fire caught hold on board the vehicle carrier Grande Costa D’Avorio whilst it [...]