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A new Safety Alert has been issued by the Bahamas Maritime Authority with
the aim of highlighting incidents, lessons learnt and to increase awareness,
which may help avoid similar incidents occurring elsewhere.
Following cargo offloading operations from a vessel to an offshore platform, the platform notified the vessel Master dies during enclosed
space rescue
that a post cover (as shown below) had been found on top of a mud skip that had been received from the
6 May 2016
vessel. The post cover had
the potential to be a dropped object of major consequence. The post cover weighed approximately 4kg. STCW 2010: Employers
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The post cover had been removed while lashings to search type and hit enter
were fitted to cargo.The post cover was placed on AMSA: Evaluation of
top of the mud skip and not removed prior to the electrical hazards onboard
oncoming shift hooking the mud skip ontothe crane 11 March 2016

to be offloaded.The post cover had gone unnoticed

Caution on the
and the mud skip offloaded to the platform.Post unauthorised and incorrect
covers are known to come free during adverse use of ECDIS
weather and previous incidents have involved the 14 December 2015
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The investigation identified one immediate cause experience
and one root cause: 11 February 2016
• Immediate Cause: Crew member left post cover on top of mud skip during cargo operations
• Root Cause: No process in place for managing the removal and replacement of post covers during cargo
operations.

Recommendations
Immediate action was taken to hold a time out for safety with the crew on-board to reiterate the
importance of dropped
objects and checks prior to the commencement of lifting operations. Following this the vessel identified a
process for managing the removal and replacement of post covers during cargo operations. This is
currently being trialled on-board the vessel and more information will be provided across
Athena Kanellatou
the owner’s/operators fleet following successful trial.
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Further information may be found below

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