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EUOAG meeting

John Bradshaw, IMCA

Brussels

29 JUNE 2016

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2016 DOCUMENT REVIEW PROGRESS

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• CMID Version 9 released in 2015, adopting the ISO 19011 international

auditing standard, and was very positively received by user community

• eCMID database showing increased rate of growth since 2013.

• The accreditation of inspectors continues in 2016 with 228 applications

worldwide.

CMID STATUS

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• Safety and environment statistics for 2015

− Information Note published during June

− As last year, a summary brochure will be developed during June

− Numbers reporting are slightly lower

• Safety Flashes

− 2016 – so far 15 flashes with 49 incidents covered

− Everyone has safety incidents

− We encourage everybody to report incidents that could have learnings

for industry

SAFETY FLASHES

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SAFETY STATISTICS – CAUSES OF LTIS

B) Falls on the same level (including slips

& trips) 25%

D) Struck by moving/falling

objects 22%

M) None given 21%

K) Entrapment 11%

G) Muscle stress and repetitive movement

8%

A) Falls from height 7%

C) Struck against 6%

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• New guidance in preparation:

− Emergency actions (including recovery to the bell and system) when

dealing with an injured diver.

− Subsea lifting operations in support of manned diving operations.

− ADCI/IOGP/IMCA Common Glossary of Terms

• Recent Information Note Topics

− Guidance on Newfoundland bell diver certificates

− Clarification on IMCA’s guidance with regards to Life Support Packages

− Guidance on the shallow application of DMAC 04 Oxygen content in

open-circuit bailout bottles for saturation diving

− Recognition of Doctors to Perform Medical Examination of Divers in the

CNA Region

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• DP Focused Workgroup

− Revision of the DP Station Keeping ‘Incident’ Report – changed to

‘Event’

− First DP Event Bulletin published – May 2016 (Lessons learnt from

events)

− Assisting with the review and revision of over 25 DP related guidance

documents

• Two key DP documents published in May

− Guidelines for the design and operation of dynamically positioned

vessels (M 103)

− Guidance on failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) (M 166)

• The training and experience of key DP personnel (M 117) – planned

publication July 2016

• IMO MSC Circular 645 - Guidelines for vessels with dynamic positioning

systems

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• Feedback via annual review

reports

• Reports are welcome from

members and non-members

• Worldwide participation

• Maintain simplicity of report form

• Security and anonymity of

participants

IMCA DP REPORTING SCHEME REVISION

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What’s not changing

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THE IMCA SCHEME IN 2016

• A new name incorporating ‘Event’

• Three clear reporting categories

• Clear instruction

• Intuitive electronic form

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IMCA DP EVENT BULLETIN

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Developed by IMCA SMEs, Bulletins will be issued 3-4 times each year to

provide prompt Lessons Learned to IMCA members and the wider DP

user community

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• received 24 reports so far this year, 8 categorised as incidents, 15 undesired

events and 1 DP downtime/observation.

• One incident of particular note concerns a vessel which suffered a partial loss

of power due to a PMS fault which had not been identified by the design

approval and commissioning process despite these having been done in

accordance with recommended practices.

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COMMON POWER BUS ASSURANCE - IMCA INFORMATION NOTE

The common bus configuration should offer equivalent dependability to

a more conventional separated power distribution arrangement

How is this established?

IMCA neither advocates nor precludes any method of establishing this

dependability

The method needs to be suitable and sufficient

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COMMON POWER BUS

• Run fewer engines

• Engines may operate closer to optimum efficiency reducing fuel use and emissions

• Less engine maintenance (from running fewer engines, less low load operation)

• Potentially more flexibility for performing system maintenance (this may be especially attractive for MODUs)

• The redundancy concept is complex

• Potentially vulnerable to poor commissioning, verification and testing

• Potentially vulnerable to hidden failures and design flaws

• Costs of system design and verification/approval

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IMCA INFORMATION NOTE

• Does not provide, or recommend a prescriptive solution

• Recommends certain considerations which operators should consider and

considers possibilities

• Recognises the advantages of common power bus arrangements whilst also

drawing attention to the difficulties of assurance for such arrangements

• Recommends a goal based approach and calls for further work and

collaboration between interested parties (operators, designers, class, learned

bodies) to develop suitable assurance tools and methods

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