Marine RA

Marine Risk Assessment
International Regulations and Recommendation explain that the Risk Assessment is not only a Company requirements, it was based on the following International Regulation or codes: ISM, TMSA and OHSAS 18001.
Evolution of Risk Assessment - the development and establishment of Safety Risk Assessment as an approach to Safety Management Systems can be traced through a series of major accidents, mainly related with shore side industries, in Europe.
Catastrophic accidents in nuclear plants (Windscale Pile Fire), chemical plants (Flixborough, Seveso, Beek) and offshore platforms (Piper Alpha Fire, Alexander Killand), have shown that traditional Safety Management Systems based only on regulations and analysis of accidents in order to avoid similar occurrences in the future are not enough anymore.
In the past the use of “prescriptive controls” resulted in comfort that accidents will not happen again. This was based on the concept that by rectifying the “cause” of the problem, similar accidents would not happen again. However this is not enough for modern, sophisticated and complex systems where a large number of different things can go wrong anytime.
As a result of the increasing complexity of the operating environment, including the human factor element, RISK ASSESSMENT methodologies and the implementation of Risk Management Systems became a COMPULSORY REGULATION for minimizing the RISK of accident in a number of hazardous industries.