Safety issue

Safety issue description

The poor condition of Royal Pescadores’ anchoring equipment was indicative of inadequate maintenance. The shipboard management team were not aware of the equipment’s maintenance history nor able to provide relevant documents from the ship’s planned maintenance system. 
Issue number MO-2014-003-SI-01
Issue owner Shih Wei Navigation
Transport function Marine: Shipboard operations
Date issue released 13/10/2015
Issue status justification

The ATSB considers that the proactive safety action taken will adequately address this safety issue.

Safety action

Action type Proactive action
Action number MO-2014-003-NSA-022
Organisation Shih Wei Navigation
Action date 13/10/2015
Action description

The ship’s managers, Shih Wei Navigation, investigated the incident and acknowledged shortcomings in the implementation and completion of shipboard planned maintenance. The ship’s managers attributed these shortcomings to a lack of familiarisation with the ship’s safety management system (SMS), its implementation, and oversight of that by the company.

Shih Wei Navigation advised that it has taken the following safety action:

  • issuing a relevant safety circular to its fleet for discussion at shipboard safety meetings
  • requiring shipmasters to place greater emphasis on crew familiarisation with the SMS
  • requiring company superintendents to focus on completion of planned maintenance.
Action status Closed