£640,000 Fines For Salmon Workers Deaths In Confined Space
Two companies have been fined a total of £640,000 following the death of two fish farm workers on a barge moored at a salmon farm on Loch Creran, Argyll & Bute. Scottish Sea Farms worker, Campbell...
View ArticleConfined Space: Are We Going The Wrong Way?
No situation is so bad that some bright executive can’t make it worse by inappropriate and ill-thought-through responses. One such response is the policy of banning entry into confined spaces entirely....
View ArticleConfined Spaces – The Barge of Death
SafeSpace member Jim Nicol of Newslink brought our attention to a video from Singapore’s Workplace SafetyHealth Council with an interesting case study in which a surveyor was found dead after he...
View ArticleSafety Alert – Walking Backwards To A Fall
Some accidents make one wonder whether Mr. Bean wrote the script. A recent safety alert for the Marine Safety Forum is an example. It could, of course, have been much worse, and did potentially put...
View ArticleBow Cecil – Don’t Forget: You Can Fall From Height In a Confined Space
It's too easy to forget that working in a confined or enclosed space can also exposed you to work aloft dangers, too. The Chief Engineer of the Bow Cecil took a step in the dark in a tank and never...
View ArticlePublication of Note: MAIB Safety Digest No 1, 2012
The UK's Marine Accident Investigation Board's latest Safety Digest is, like its predecessors, insightful and informed with a certain British quirkiness that makes it highly readable. Among the...
View ArticleInvestigators Release Free Confined Space Poster/Screensaver
MAC is pleased to bring attention to a poster and computer screensaver just released by the Maritime Accident Investigators International Forum, an organisation that has done sterling work on confined...
View ArticleEnclosed/Confined Space Incidents “Fatalities Increasing”
safespace Confined/Enclosed spaces not only continue to take their toll, says the UK P&I Club, but are on the increase despite recent measures to reduce such incidents. The club has issued a...
View ArticleEshcol Deaths: Lessons Not Being Learned
Two seafarers died of carbon monoxide poinsoning whilst asleep on a fishing vessel in Whitby, which demonstrates that lessons over several years, warnings and alerts have had little impact. Poorly...
View ArticleSafeSpace: Argon/Inert Gas Fatality
OGP, the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers, has issued a safety alert following the death of a worker at a construction/rig repair yard in Singapore in May this year. The worker had...
View ArticleConfined Space Deaths Highlight Timber Hazards
Two men, a Russian chief officer and a Ukrainian chief engineer have died in a hold containing timber while a third, a Filipino second officer who attempted to rescue them collapsed by survived. The...
View ArticleSally Ann C Sparks Nautilus Outrage On Confined Space Deaths
Following the deaths of two ship’s officers aboard the general cargo ship Sally Ann C off the West African coast seafarer’s union Nautilus International has called for the UK to lead a ‘new and...
View ArticleThis week’s podcast replay: The Case of the Tablets Of Love
You might not smell trouble but you might see it coming, even if it wears a mask Listen To The Podcast We’ll call him Danek, not his real name but he was a real person, a Polish able seaman and one of...
View ArticleConfined Space Death Again – Something is Wrong
Something is deeply wrong with an industry in which so many can die so often in tragedies entirely avoidable. One death, three injured and one escape from a hold containing wood pellets aboard the...
View ArticleSuntis Triple Death Mysteries
Is there anything remotely ambiguous about the signage on this hatch-cover? Why did three seafarers ignore them? Unfortunately the report from the Federal Bureau of Maritime Casualty Investigation on...
View ArticleMCA Confined Space Workshop 24 February
Britain’s Maritime & Coastguard Agency, MCA, is holding a workshop on 24 February in London. Says the MCA: “Over 50 years ago enclosed spaces were recognised as a serious risk to seafarers and the...
View ArticleSafespace Replay: The Case of the Rusty Assassin
Three men lay dead in the anchor locker. What they'd needed to live was all around them except in one place: the air they once breathed.
View ArticleSafespace Replay: The Case Of The One-Way Assassin
A young ambitious officer with the world of command ahead of him but he forgot the golden rule: when you go into a trap, make sure you've got two pairs of eyes.
View ArticleSafeSpace Replay 1: The Confined Space That Wasn’t
Do you know what a confined space actually is? Can you identify one by looking at it? When is a confined space hazardous? And when does a non-hazardous space become a dangerous one? This week MAC is...
View ArticleSafeSpace Replay 2: More ‘Confined space that wasn’t’ incidents
MAC has already mentioned one example of a 'confined space entry incident that wasn't' , now another example has been highlighted by the International Marine Contractors Association on an offshore...
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