On Board Risk Management
Prepared by: ADPA / Engr. Haitham Mustafa
March 2019
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Key Points
• Purpose / Objective;
• Definitions;
• Identify the hazards;
• Who and what may be affected / harmed;
• Quantify the risk;
• Applying of control measures;
• Risk Management Categories;
• Follow Up Of Measures & Control Of Effectiveness;
• SSHEQ‐MS Involvement;
• Campaigns to remember; &
• References / Supporting Documents Details.
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Purpose / Objective
This training aims to:
• Refresh the concept of risk assessment and risk management and its role
onboard Zakher Marine Units;
• Highlight the steps to be taken in any risk assessment;
• Introduce the different strategies of risk management;
• Ensure that Zakher Marine Risk Management Procedures are well understood
by the crew members; &
• Minimize the risk exposure level by adopting adequate control measures.
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Definitions
Loss / harm: Injury, death, damage to property plant, products or the environment, production losses etc.
Hazard: An object, physical effect, source, situation, act or condition with potential to harm people
(human injury or ill‐health), property, or the environment or affect the company reputation.
Hazard Identification: A process of recognizing that a hazard exists and defining its characteristics
Risk: The possibilities that the potential for harm will be attained under the conditions of use and/ or
exposure, and the possible extent of the harm.
Work Place Risk Assessment: The Workplace risk assessment is a careful examination of what, in work,
could cause harm to people, property and environment, so that it can be weighed up whether enough
precautions have been taken to prevent harm. The process of evaluating the risk to health and safety of
workers whilst at work arising from circumstances of the occurrence of a hazard at the workplace includes
systematic and documented examination of all aspects of the work under‐ taken in order to consider what
could cause injury or harm
Ill‐health: Identifiable, adverse physical or mental condition, arising from, and/or made worse by, a work
activity and/or work‐related situation
Accident: An unexpected and undesired event that results in injury to personnel, property damage, or
pollution of the environment.
Near miss: An incident which OCCURRED but was avoided by circumstances and resulted in no injury
and/or damage and/or loss. Under slightly different circumstances it could have had severe
consequences.
Safety: Protection of people from physical injury and protection of assets from any loss. 4
Identify The Hazards
A good starting point is to walk around your
workplace and think about any hazards. In other
words, what is it about the activities, processes or
substances used that could injure your employees
or harm their health?
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Identify The Hazards
When you work in a place every day it is easy to overlook some hazards, so here are
some tips to help you identify the ones that matter:
Accidents, ill‐health or near miss data
Task observations, Job hazard analysis
Employee Consultation& Communication
Work place inspection
Behavioural patterns of the employees concerning the health and safety at the workplace
Material Safety Data Sheets and manufacturers information
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Who & What May Be Affected / Harmed
Who may be harmed What might be harmed
Operators of equipment Assets ‐ Company’s and, or customer’s
Contractors Equipment
Material
Marine and deck crew
Newly hired personnel Environment
Third party on board (clients, passengers, etc.) Time loss
Office staff
People sharing your workplace
Cleaners
Divers
People with special needs and young persons
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Quantify The Risk
The quantified risk rating is based on the Risk Assessment Matrix (RAM). It determines
the risk rating from the Potential severity level given in rows A‐E, and the Probability
(Likelihood of occurrence) in columns 1 – 5.
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Applying Of Control Measures
This stage of the risk Management is risk control where control measures to be listed
against each hazard. All contingencies must be covered ‐ all reasonably possible
situations where a snag or failure could occur and from which you can safely recover
from such a problem and complete the activity.
The control and risk treatment measures must include:
• Identifying the range of options for dealing with the controls of risks
• Evaluating these options
• Preparing risk control plans and implementing them.
• Adequate information, instruction, training
• Adequate systems or procedures
• Meet the normal legal requirement
• Represent good practice
• Reduce Risk as low as reasonably practicable
• Comply with a recognized industry standard
• Have an acceptable low level of residual risk
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Applying Of Control Measures
Control measures hierarchy and techniques
Most
effective
Design‐Allows hazards to be designed out; and control measures to be designed in
Elimination‐Modification to process method or material to eliminate the hazard
completely
Substitution‐Replacing the material, substance or process with a less
hazardous one.
Redesign‐Redesigning plant or work process to reduce the
risk
Separation‐Isolating the hazard from persons by
safeguarding, or by space or time separation.
Administration ‐ Adjusting the time
or conditions of risk exposures /
training
PPE ‐ Using the
appropriately designed
protection equipment
where other controls
are not practicable
Least
Exposure:
effective Minimizing
exposure to
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Risk Management Categories
Risk avoidance Not proceeding with the project or activity or aspect that gives rise to the risk. e.g. deciding not to
proceed with a plan that requires personnel transfer between at sea vessels during rough weather.
Reducing the likelihood of Developing, implementing or redesigning equipment, practices, processes or policies that will make
the risk the risk less likely to occur. e.g. high staff turnover may be reduced by improving the staff
performance management system, or the risk of injury to pedestrians at the Supply Base is
improved by putting a physical barrier between the pedestrian walkway and the vehicle lane rather
than having only a painted line barrier.
Reducing the impact of the Developing treatments to reduce the consequences to the Company (or the department) should the
risk risk occur. e.g. the impact of a mechanical failure may be reduced by ensuring regular maintenance
of the critical spares list, allowing the mechanical failure to be repaired quickly, or the use of PPE
such as gloves may reduce the severity of a potential hand injury when working with hot surfaces.
Risk transfer Transferring the impacts of a risk to another party. e.g. insurance policies, contractual provisions,
subcontracting or outsourcing.
Contingency planning Putting in place mechanisms that will enable the Company to effectively deal with a risk event
should it occur. e.g. resources which are set aside to deal with a potential project cost overrun, or
any emergency or disaster preparation.
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Follow Up Of Measures & Control Of Effectiveness
Re‐evaluate the risk with control measures in
place.
Identify if further control measures or risk
treatment can be applied and re‐evaluate, analyze
the risk with the further control measures in place.
If the team considers that there are insufficient
independent control measures available or that
they are unlikely to be effective against that
particular hazard, then the risk must be judged to
be unacceptable. In this instance the work should
be cancelled or postponed until further thought
has been given as to how the risks can further be
reduced in order that the work activity can be
performed safely.
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Control, Validity & Review Of The Risk Assessments
In case of below mentioned items review cycle may increase and review to be
carried out on quarterly basis and in some cases as soon as possible.
• Expansion, contraction or restructuring the activities
• Reallocation of responsibilities
• Changes of methods of work or pattern of behavior
• Occurrence of hazardous, undesired event, incidents etc.
• Business risk high potential
• Material change in circumstances (this may include significant audit findings,
investigation findings etc.)
• Project change
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SSHEQMS Involvement (SP, CL, Form)
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SSHEQMS Involvement (SP, CL, Form)
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SSHEQMS Involvement (SP, CL, Form)
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Campaigns to Remember
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References / Supporting Documents Details
• Zakher Marine SSHEQ Management system;
• Zakher Marine Safety Flashes;
• Complacency – The silent killer – Campaign;
• Risk assessment ‐ A brief guide to controlling risks in the workplace
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Thank You!
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