Safety Insights

This RightShip Insights series provides industry partners with key learnings from industry incidents, identified gaps and leading practices to improve standards and mitigate risk.

Safety insights - Enclosed space entry

11 April 2025

Since 2019, RightShip assessed a selections of 611 incidents that resulted in fatalities. Of these, 35 happened in enclosed spaces resulting in 46 lives lost. These tragic incidents could have been avoided, if certain preventative or mitigating controls had been in place.

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Safety insights - Mooring safety

7 May 2025

Mooring forms an integral part of critical shipboard operations. It can be viewed as routine or nonroutine depending on the type of mooring operations. Incidents related to mooring do not occur often. However, when they occur, they frequently result in a permanent disability or fatality.

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