Incident Date:

19/07/2002

Summary:

Failure of safety critical equipment

Incident consequences (potential or actual):

No details available.

Cause of accident or incident:

No details available.

Activity Location:

Fixed Installation

Activity Type:

*Any Activity Type

Description:

Identified during routine maintenance on the Platform lifeboat the winch/break mechanism failed to operate as required. This was subsequently freed off and further tested sucessfully. ( this would not have been an option in a real situation ) The incident report is raised against another similar platform as during an intervention the mechanical tech tested the winch/break mechanism to see if a similar problem was present. This also failed to operate. Due to the nature of the intervention there was not sufficient time to attempt any remedial works / investigations. The 2nd platform now has a visit restriction imposed until mechanism can be investigated and remedial works completed. For history, this is not the first time this has occurred (23-12-01) the manufacturers appointed agent have already investigated the winch failure earler this year. Had this failure occured during an evacuation this would have the potential to delay or prevent safe evacuaton from the platform.

Specific Equipment:

Lifeboat

Lessons Learnt:

No details available.

Task Description:

No details available.

Recommendations:

Information from manufacturers inspection to provide input to recommendations to prevent reoccurance for both platforms

Contact Details:

No details available.

Figures:

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