Insurer to publish warnings against slipping, tripping and falling at sea

2012 04 26


FOLLOWING the launch of its Bow Tie loss prevention initiative in January 2012, the UK P&I Club is now embarking on the publication of a series of Risk Focus booklets which highlight specific areas of risk.

This month (April) sees the publication of "Risk Focus: Slips, Trips and Falls", which according to the insurance organisation, represents nearly one in three of the large personal injury claims submitted and have amounted to US$155 million in loss over the past 10 years.

"They are constant with very little variation in numbers of claims from year to year. They represent pain and suffering of people who have been injured or killed because they have slipped, tripped or fallen aboard ship," said UK Club risk prevention director Karl Lumbers.

"Because of the huge costs of these claims and because of the human suffering represented by each of them, we strongly believe that a concerted attack must be made on the incidence of slips, trip and falls," he said.

As the Bow Tie project has already proven, a proactive and precautionary approach can be very useful and in this case should enable the UK Club to reduce the incidence of slips, trips and falls, firstly by identifying hazards which have the potential to harm.

"Just walking around the ship with a sharp eye and an open mind can identify features which might hurt people. It is often not the obvious like working with machinery that causes accidents. Rather, just moving around the ship, going up and down companionways and ladders, carrying weights or neglecting to keep 'one hand for the ship and one for yourself' are frequently behind very nasty accidents," Mr Lumbers said.

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