Risk Based System for Management of Navigation in Ports. V. M. Trbojevic, EQE International Ltd., 18 Mansell Street, London E1 8AA, telephone +44 (0)171 357 2426, fax +44 (0)171 357 2015, e-mail vmt@eqe.co.uk; and W. H. Vervest, Heerema Marine Contractors, Vondellaan 47, 2332 AA Leiden
With the introduction of the Formal Safety Assessment in the International Maritime Organisation decision making process regarding new regulations, and the recent tanker disasters resulting in extensive oil pollution, the public and political pressure to improve safety in ports and the shipping industry has increased. Considering that some kind of Safety Report (case) regulations related to marine operations have not been established, and that the ports and shipping industry are at the onset of safety regimes utilised in other industries, a step wise methodology for safety improvements in ports has been developed.
In the first step, the hazard identification and the qualitative risk assessment is carried out to establish hazard barriers which are or should be in place to prevent hazards from being released; the controls for managing these hazards are then developed and integrated into the Safety Management System. The emphasis of the approach is on the linkage between the technical and the management systems, which ensures a focused and integrated safety management. An attempt is made to assess the quality of risk controls from the safety point of view.
In the second and optional step, the areas of high risk are investigated in detail and the approach for risk quantification discussed. The use of the quantitative risk assessment results is illustrated in two examples.
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