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The Mooring Safety Campaign: Successfully Completed
We are pleased to announce the successful completion of The Mooring Safety Campaign which ended on 15th March 2006, creating a huge awareness to this safety aspect among our crew on board.

As part of the campaign, the company involved each individual crew on board, inviting their suggestions and feedback for the two parts of the campaign:

Part I : The two most important reasons which, in their opinion are the major contributing factors for mooring accidents and what specific precautions are required to mitigate the risks.

Part II: The two most important precautions which, in their opinion are the major contributing factors for accidents during maintenance of mooring winches and what specific precautions are required to mitigate the identified risks.

This would indeed go a long way in reiterating our safety culture on board each ship where:

Our Aim
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Accidents are not accepted as “normal”
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Employees are focused on personal and co-worker safety
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Safety Tool Box used for every job, every task, everyday
It was a tough call for selectors to judge the prize winning entries among the overwhelming response we got from the crew and the winners are:
Winners
1st prize

Prakash Kumar Patel
AB2
( Windsor )
2nd Prize

Freddy N. Fernandes
Bosun
(Forward Pioneer)

3rd Prize

Ruchir Suryavanshi
2nd Off
(Pacific Honor)

Congratulations to all the three winners. Certificates of Merit shall be sent to them soon.


"Getting Moorings Right" Poster

 

*Note: This monthly safety moment is collected from various sources for educational purpose and is not an actual incident from the ESM fleet.
ENGINE-ROOM FIRE WHILST ALONGSIDE

The vessel was alongside for maintenance and repair. Work continued as scheduled until welding fumes in the engine workshop caused the fire alarms to sound. To prevent further alarms this zone was isolated. On completion of the days work hourly fire patrols were started as usual, however reactivation of the fire detection for the isolated zone was missed out.

Later in the night the fire alarms sounded again, this time however neither the ships crew nor the shore fire brigade could reach the engine workshop area
due to intense heat. CO2 flooding of the engine space had to be carried out to bring the fire under control.

Investigation later revealed that the impingement of a spray of warm lube oil onto the hot exhaust of the starboard auxiliary had caused the fire. However the fire detection for this zone was not activated resulting in the delay in detection of fire. This fire later spread to other areas in the engine room and was detected by the detectors in the other active zones.

Vessel suffered severe damages as a result of the fire.
LESSONS LEARNT
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Fire Alarms must always be ensured to be in good working order.
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Fire rounds on vessels during repairs must be carried out diligently. Obviously such large fires would have been detected earlier had the fire round been diligent.
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In case it is required to deactivate the fire detection system for any one zone, it must be ensured (by the senior officer) that system has been activated soonest after completion of work (Part of hot work permit).
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The separation between the cargo system power packs and the auxiliary engines was not adequate enough to prevent spray of lube oil on the exhaust of the engine.
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