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Watch your hands – You’ve only got one set Introduction This is the eight post in a series of 25. Each post will be dealing with a shipboard work related issue and how to cope with it. Previous articles in the series has been about: Safe Manual Handling Preventing Slip, Trips and falls Toolbox Talks
Drug and Alcohol Misuse – The Effects Introduction This is the seventh post in a series of 25. Each post will be dealing with a shipboard work related issue and how to cope with it. Previous articles in the series has been about: Safe Manual Handling Preventing Slip, Trips and falls Toolbox Talks Lifting Operations
Working at Height Introduction This is the sixth post in a series of 25. Each post will be dealing with a shipboard work related issue and how to cope with it. Previous articles in the series has been about: Safe Manual Handling Preventing Slip, Trips and falls Toolbox Talks Lifting Operations Lifting Equipment General
Lifting Equipment Introduction This is the fifth post in a series of 25. Each post will be dealing with a shipboard work related issue and how to cope with it. Previous articles in the series has been about: Safe Manual Handling Preventing Slip, Trips and falls Toolbox Talks Lifting Operations General The lifting equipment is
Lifting Operations Introduction This is the fourth post in a series of 25. Each post will be dealing with a shipboard work related issue and how to cope with it. Previous articles in the series has been about: Safe Manual Handling Preventing Slip, Trips and falls Toolbox Talks General On all kind of vessels,
Toolbox Talks Introduction This is the third post in a series of 25. Each post will be dealing with a shipboard work related issue and how to cope with it. Previous articles in the series has been about: No. 1 – Safe Manual Handling No. 2 – Preventing Slip, Trips and falls General The
Preventing Slips & Trips Introduction This is the second post in a series of 25. Each post will be dealing with a shipboard work related issue and how to cope with it. The first post was about safe manual handling. General The term “slip & trips” relates to the danger of loosing balance and
Safe manual handling – What is that? Introduction This post is the first in a series of 25. Each post will be dealing with a shipboard work related issue and how to cope with it. The first post is about safe manual handling. General The term “manual handling” relates to the moving
Human Errors at the DP Console One week ago IMCA released the Incident Reports for 2012 regarding DP station keeping incidents and there are some things to consider within the report. Human errors was explained as the main cause for 17% of the incidents, and numerous of the these incidents included pushing the wrong button
OMSA on deep water Recently an article has been published in a magazine for the offshore industry. The topic was “Offshore Safety” and the article was about that US will require foreign flagged offshore vessels to comply with domestic marine casualty reporting. The intention is to get a better picture of what actually happens on
The report which caught my attention this time was about the removed lifebuoys on board several vessels. Simply the Captain on board removed a number of lifebuoys during passage in order not to loose them. Instead of mounting a locking pin, the lifebuoy itself was removed. This is a sign of poor safety culture and
Close call in enclosed space. This time they were lucky to survive the incident, but the report is amazing and it shows that there are a lot of work still to be done in order to heighten the general awareness of which work to stop and which work to carry out. This report also shows
Sea Trial without planning The word trial says that something is going to be tested since it is either new or has been modified or changed in one way or another. This also means that you have to expect that the systems might not function to 100% and therefore some precautions needs to be taken,
Insufficient risk assessment by the ship designers! In the MARS report for the month of March, there is an interesting topic regarding a, unfortunately small fire in the engine room on board a tanker. The tanker was equipped with hydraulic deepwell pumps and after discharge port it was planned to carry out some
Damage to shell platings in sub-standard ports! Today the administrations and classifications societies keeps an sharp eye on the vessels, making sure that they stick to the rules, regulations and recommendations applicable to it. However, who keeps an yes on the ports, Pilots and other parties who are involved in a ship’s safe maneuvering from the
The environment must be protected! An Environmental policy must exist in a QA-system! The CBT ISO 14001 is the most important training to conduct when joining a vessel! Switch of the light in areas not in use! An Environmental Officer must be designated on board, and so on…. All of the above plus many many
Risk Assessment makes a difference! The comment for the MARS Report this month could more or less been copied and pasted from last month. Again an accident has been reported which includes some kind of rope or wire. This month it is a routine task on board a tug boat (MARS 201302) which suddenly due
A ships emergency plan is, I would say, the most important plan on board. It will assist you to reach your muster station and to deal with different emergency situations which might occur, and SOLAS describes clearly what information is required on such plan. Despite this, I have seen a number of emergency plans which
Everyone who is working offshore today are well aware of the safety observation programme in force, which includes Safety Observation Cards (SOC). On board some units it works better than on board others, and to have a fully functional system all employees need to participate. Basically the safety culture in the company and how well
Beware of the bight! They happens all the times, the accidents and incidents we do not think will happen. In this issue of the MARS Report there are two mooring related accidents, of which one has been published in its own report here on www.marqua.se . MARS 201259 is about a roller fairlead that fails,
A HSE Management System tends to include a lot of paper work in forms of procedures, checklists and important information. From the very beginning it was possible to visual see how big the manual, or manuals for that instance were, since they were printed and put into a binder which stood in the book shelf.
ECDIS related accidents can happen due to many factors. Wrong settings, no updated charts or user error could be the reason for such accident. The use of safety contour should be something which is kept under close control by the nagivators, and especially the Master. For the most of us it is natural to have
UK P&I Club have published a report regarding power loss on board ships during manoeuvres. A reason for this should be the use of Low Sulphur Fuels according to their Risk Assessors. It is interesting reading and could be a risk to count with. ———– SHIPS using costly, eco-friendly low sulphur fuel suddenly lose power
Honestly, I am surprised of the level of VHF navigation in some ports around the world. When I was studying at the maritime school it was emphasized that radio navigation is a dangerous game, and this has followed me during the years. It is not just a thing I have learned, I actually believe it is correct too. Do
They are still around! The mooring accidents! Last month Marqua forwarded an accident report regarding a fatal accident on board a cargo ship during a routine mooring operation. In this month’s MARS you can read about an AB getting injured after departure. Mooring related injuries has been focused on for years, and OCIMF has published
The Nautical Institute launches a new magazine for marine navigators. The name of the publication is “The Navigator”. It is published with the help and support of the Royal Institute of Navigation, the magazine aims to highlight the work of the modern professional navigator and will focus on key issues such as safety, the regulatory
Please find MARS report from September 2012. MARS 239 Sept 2012
Marqua will post the reports from MARS (Mariners Alerting and Reporting Scheme) on its website. MARS is a confidential reporting system for the whole shipiing industry. It should be used as a learing tool for all other ships and their crew’s. It is uneccesary to experience the same accident twice!
Tombarra – Malfunction of a davit proximity switch resulting in tha failure of a rescue boat fall wire with the loss och one life. Rescue boats, or FRC’s are involved in a number of fatal accidents every year. There are manu sequences during a rescue boat manouvre that expose the users for hazards, hazards they
Please find attached accident report from M/V Morraborg. On the 3:rd of July, 2011, SAIA was informed that a fatal accident had occurred onboard the Dutch general cargo vessel Morraborg while berthing at the port of Holmsund, Sweden. Please read the report and reflect on the enormous force a broken mooring line creates.