Monday, October 26, 2009

Managing Risks and Safety of Ships: The Domestic Shipping Experience II

Safety Practice – Risk Assessment

The author and its co-practitioners have conducted Risk Assessment for ships with less competent crew. Assessment covers the following procedure:

a. Identification of hazards

b. Assessment of the risks associated with those hazards

c. Application of controls to reduce the risks that are deemed intolerable (ALARP)

d. Monitoring of the effectiveness of the controls

References used in this assessment are the Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) of International Association of Class Society (IACS) and the Shell Tripod Analysis and qualitative Risk Assessment matrix. A SeaShore simplified and tailor fit software is also developed and used for the purpose of this assessment.

Based on the IACS study of accidents, 80% are from human errors and 20% are from technical failures.

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