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Abstract
Considering the expanding industry for offshore units, offshore support vessels are also in the trend of increasing. In this sense, more complex and more demanding technologies are emerging especially for new designs of these type of vessels. More and more people demand control over risk to which they are exposed. The complexity of most activities in engineering requires a cooperative effort made by specialists to model the uncertainties of risk and to seek measures of reduction. This urgent need to deal with the problems of risk led to the development of risk-related disciplines like Risk Analysis, Risk Assessment and Risk Management, where the purpose of the risk analysis is a detailed investigation of the causes and initiating events and consequences of the more important accident scenarios and Risk management is a process that assists decision makers in reducing or offsetting risk (by systematically identifying, assessing, and controlling risk arising from operational factors) and making decisions that weigh risks against mission benefits by using methodology of risk assessment that is a step to understand how the hazard develops and causes an accident. Therefore, it is of great importance to have a framework based on risk assessment. This report discusses methodological requirements for the risk perspective of offshore support vessels. A perspective that is proposed here considers risk as a set encompassing the following:
1. A set of plausible scenarios leading to defects,
2. The likelihoods of unwanted events within the scenarios,
3. The consequences of the events and description of uncertainty.
In the maritime domain, risk is evaluated within the framework of the Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) which has become an internationally recognized and recommended method from an international organization named International Maritime Organization (IMO). IMO has encouraged its member countries to introduce Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) for ship operations since the end of the last century. FSA can be used through certain formal assessing steps to generate effective recommendations and cautions to control operational risks and improve the safety of ships’ operations. On the basis of the brief introduction of FSA, this report describes the ideas of applying FSA to the prevention of Equipment/Machinery damage during ship support operations. It especially discusses the investigation and analysis of the information and data and puts forward some suggestions for the introduction and development of the FSA research work for safer ship operations.