When to carry out a Risk Assessment
Risk Assessments are to be conducted whenever an activity which is:
- Known to be hazardous, from your experience, training or plain common sense.
- Unusual, abnormal or requires significant departure from normal routines.
List of Work that requires risk assessment, which by no means is exhaustive:
- Hot Work in enclosed space/ deck
- Entry into enclosed spaces
- The malfunctioning of (or any work which requires disabling of) critical systems, such as steering, inert gas, alarm systems, fire fighting or lifesaving appliances, etc.
- Working on live electrical circuits
- Working on piping or systems, sections of which contain stored energy (pneumatic, hydraulic or spring loaded pressure)
- Working on piping or systems, sections of which contain potentially harmful or hazardous fluids.
- Undertaking major maintenance / repair / renewal jobs
- Movement, removal or replacement of heavy items such as cylinder heads, pistons, liners, large pumps or motors, pipelines, etc
- Diving (or internal work) on underwater shipside connections (e.g. pipelines & valves).
- Critical areas of navigation, including shallow water, Sensitive Areas and difficult night passages.
- Loading unusual cargoes (may be detrimental to health or the ship).
- Inadequate berthing / mooring / terminal facilities.
- Discovery of cracks, cargo ingress into non-cargo spaces, etc.
- Rescue and Salvage operations.
- At any other time or operation considered appropriate by Shipboard Management.
- When directed by Shore Management.
It should also be noted that many of these events would require input and assistance from Shore Management.
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