A Port Risk Assessment was conducted for the port of Mobile, Alabama 9-10 August 1999. This report will provide the following information: Brief description of the process used for the assessment; list of participants; numerical results from the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP); and Summary of risks will be the subject of a future report. Follow-on strategies to develop and implement unmitigated risks will be the subject of a separate report. The risk assessment process is a disciplined approach to obtaining expert judgements on the level of waterway risk. The process also addresses the relative merit of specific types of Vessel Traffic Management (VTM) improvements for reducing risk in the port. Based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), the port risk assessment process involves convening a select group of expert/stakeholders in each port and conducting structured workshops to evaluate waterway risk factors and the effectiveness of various VTM improvements. The process requires the participation of local Coast Guard officials before and throughout the workshops. Identification of local risk factors/drivers and selecting appropriate risk mitigation measures is thus accomplished by a joint effort involving experts and stakeholders, including both waterway users and the agencies/entities responsible for implementing selected risk mitigation measures. This methodology hinges on the development of a generic model of vessel casualty risk in a port. Since risk is defined as the product of the probability of a casualty and its consequences, the model includes variables associated with both the causes and the effects of vessel casualties. The model uses expert opinion to weight the relative contribution of each variable to the overall port risk. The experts are then asked to establish scales to measure each variable.
Port of Mobile, Alabama, After Action Report
1999
13 pages
Report
No indication
English
Management Practice , Civil Engineering , Hydrology & Limnology , Operations Research , Ports(Facilities) , Risk analysis , Waterways , Alabama , Channels(Waterways) , Coast guard , Environmental impact , Identification , Management , Methodology , Models , Rivers , Traffic , Wind , Workshops , Mobile(Alabama)
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