2nd Edition

Maritime Transportation Safety Management and Risk Analysis

By Stein Haugen, Svein Kristiansen Copyright 2023
672 Pages 202 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

672 Pages 202 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

672 Pages 202 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The environmental and human costs of marine accidents are high, and risks are considerable. At the same time, expectations from society for the safety of maritime transportation, like most other activities, increase continuously. To meet these expectations, systematic methods for understanding and managing the risks in a cost-efficient manner are needed. This book provides readers with an... Read more

1. Introduction

2. The risk picture

3. Terminology

4. Stakeholders, rules and regulations

5. Safety management system

6. Risk acceptance

7. Human and organizational factors

8. Risk analysis methods

9. Measuring risk

10. Methods for navigational risk analysis

11. Human reliability analysis

12. Formal safety assessment

13. Security

14. Accident data

15. Risk reduction measures

16. Emergency preparedness and response

17. Risk-based design

18. Monitoring risk level

19. Learning from accidents and incidents

Biography

Professor Stein Haugen had been working at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in the Department of Marine Technology until 2021. He has extensive experience from industry and recently joined the consultancy company Safetec Nordic. His teaching and research has been in risk assessment and safety management, for the maritime, oil and gas, and process industry. He has extensive international experience, having worked in the UK for two years and in Italy for a year, as a visiting professor.

Professor Svein Kristiansen, PhD, has been teaching ship design and safety management at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has also served as advisor to Sintef Ocean and Safetec Nordic AS and as External Examiner at Strathclyde University. His research interest is risk analysis and human factors. The research on accident analysis was linked to several EU funded programmes. He has been Visiting Scholar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UC San Diego) and University of Valencia.