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Company Advices Employees to Use Overboard Devices Feed

WEDNESDAY, 27 JUNE 2007

THE MARINE Accident Investigation Branch has advised salmon farming company Mainstream Scotland to supply all its crewmen with man overboard notification devices following the tragic death of one of its employees in Shetland.

Martin Ramsay, aged 44, from Burravoe in Yell, died when he fell overboard from the workboat Conquest in Olna Firth, on March 19 this year.

The Conquest was on the way from a salmon farm to the pier in the village of Voe when the accident happened.

Fellow crew members were at the time not aware of the accident happening and only realized that Mr. Ramsay was missing after having arrived in Voe.

Mainstream Scotland has now closed permanently one of the two large gaps in the guard rails on the vessel's workdeck and fitted means of closing the other gap when not in use after being advised by the MAIB so do so.

A preliminary investigation into the accident, published by the MAIB, said that it was highly likely that Mr. Ramsay had fallen overboard where no such guard rails were fitted.

Mainstream Scotland is now also carrying out an assessment of its existing Health & Safety polices and training, and will produce both site and vessel specific risk assessments.

As part of that assessment, the chief inspector of marine accidents, Stephen Meyer, has told the company to consider supplying all crewmen with a man overboard notification devices, "which are now readily available from various suppliers".

Source:
www.fishfarmer-magazine.com

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