Two IMCA members have shared latest occasions regarding emergency drills and musters.
Incident 1 – Emergency button caught
Throughout an emergency drill, it was discovered that the Basic Emergency alarm on the bridge was delayed while being activated.
Additional investigation revealed that devoted Emergency button was caught, and it did not carry out its operate in a well timed approach throughout the drill.
Classes
Test: might your emergency alarm buttons be caught or seized? When was the final time anybody really pressed the hearth alarm button?
Incident 2 – Close to Miss – Smoke at muster station
A fireplace alarm was set off on the port aspect muster station the place there was a smoking space. An AB and the 2nd Mate had been despatched to analyze what was happening. On arrival on the muster station there was dense smoke coming from the ashtray stand. The ashtray was opened, and a smouldering paper cup was discovered, together with not too long ago discarded cigarette butts.
The smoker had, as a substitute of bringing the cup to the devoted waste bin which is simply 10 metres away, simply opened the standing ashtray and dumped the paper cup along with the nonetheless burning cigarette butt and closed it. This motion precipitated smouldering and a small hearth and will have developed into a way more severe state of affairs.
What went flawed
Private negligence and never following fundamental guidelines;
In different circumstances and situations such negligence might have led to a extra severe hearth.
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