Maritime Risk Assessment

Course ID: M7101MB6  

Credits: 3

Objective:
Greater heed has been paid to maritime safety since several catastrophic accidents in the 1990's. For the improvement of maritime safety, a systematic risk assessment and safety management is required. The lecture is planning to give students the understanding in risk assessment and safety management to a certain extent. It will also enable students to be familiar with quality and quantitative risk assessment techniques currently and commonly applied in the literature and to appreciate the future trend.

Course Prerequisites: Greater heed has been paid to maritime safety since several catastrophic accidents in the 1990's. For the improvement of maritime safety, a systematic risk assessment and safety management is required. The lecture is planning to give students the understanding in risk assessment and safety management to a certain extent. It will also enable students to be familiar with quality and quantitative risk assessment techniques currently and commonly applied in the literature and to appreciate the future trend.

Outline:

First, the theoretical aspects of risk assessment and safety management will be addressed. By virtue of the introduction of Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) and Safety Case (SC), the methodology of risk assessment and safety management will be appreciated, which are hazard identification, risk assessment, risk control options, cost-benefit assessment and decision making, respectively. In addition, the qualitative and quantitative approaches commonly and currently applied in each step of the methodology.

Teaching Method: Power point presentations, Subject discussions 

Reference:

1.Pillay, A.& Wang, J. (2003), Technology and Safety of Marine System

2.Harms-Ringdahl, L. (2001), Safety Analysis-Principles and practices in occupational safety

3.Kuo, C. (1998), Managing Ship Safety

4.Cox, S. & Tait, R (1998), Safety, Reliability and Risk Management: an integrated approach

Course Schedule (subject to change):

1.The theoretical issues of risk assessment and safety management

2.Formal Safety Assessment and Safety Case

3.Hazard identification methods

4.Risk assessment techniques

5.Risk control options

6.Decision-making techniques

7.Human reliability assessment methods

8.Ongoing research and novel techniques for risk assessment and safety management 

Evaluation:

Evaluation report comprises of 40% of overall mark. Attendance and homework consists of 30 % whereas the percentage of overall mark in the reading of safety related material is 30 %.