RISK IDENTIFICATION EXERCISE

INDUSTRY: Ship Repair Industry

(A) COMPANY BACKGROUND:
Company X operates a shipyard whose primary engagement is through its
ship repair services from Hull works, piping, blasting and painting, dry
docking services and etch...

(B) WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF EACH RISK?

Shipyards heavily rely on manpower skills, methods and practices which are
all prone to human error. In the ship repair industry, this human error is one
source of risk that might cause a workers life, group performance and
companies reputation. Typically shipyards operates in a manner of accident
free work environment which is valued by clients and they consider it is one
of their factor of evaluating a company. Other sources of risk might include
defective facilities, culture etch.

(C) WHAT WOULD THE EFFECT ON OBJECTIVES BE?

Ship repair has a hazardous work environment there is in the industry, relying
mainly in manpower skills, one of the main objective of the yard is safety.
This of course have a chain reaction in the business process if left uncheck.
Accidents which results in injuries, fire related incidents, machinery and
structure damages and worst, loss of life will lead to financial losses in the
company and delayed projects that might hurt the companys reputation and
its competitive power in the market.

(D) WHEN, WHERE, WHY, HOW ARE THESE RISKS (BOTH POSITIVE
AND NEGATIVE) LIKELY TO OCCUR?

WHEN: Whenever standard jobsite safety procedure is ignored as safety is

concurrent with risk in the ship repair industry.
WHERE: In the jobsite proper or in the ship being repaired (in general)
WHY: lack of knowledge and experience of workers and decision maker in
proper risk evaluation. Also companys culture plays a vital role in managing
risk and safety in the yard. Attitude and behavior affects a proper
implementation of safety procedure that are catered to risk in the job site.
HOW: most of the time risk evaluation is ignored in order to meet project
deadlines, lack of strict supervision in workers doing a risky jobs.

(E)WHO MIGHT BE INVOLVED OR IMPACTED?

This risk affects all workers, engineers (supervisors), Ship repair manager
involved carrying out work activities in the ship repair
Clients that look forward to a safe and timely completion of the project.
The company, which has its reputation and competitive power in the market
to protect.
(F)WHAT CONTROLS PRESENTLY EXIST TO TREAT THIS RISK (MAXIMIZE
POSITIVE RISKS OR MINIMIZE NEGATIVE RISKS)?

The yard implements a permit to work order which initially inspect, assess
and evaluate certain jobs with regards to its risk and safety precaution
needed to proceed with the task.
Random inspection of ship surroundings in order to be sure that all jobs have
permits and that workers are following safety rules in doing their jobs.

(G) WHAT COULD CAUSE THE CONTROL NOT TO HAVE THE DESIRED
AFFECT ON THE RISK?

Most of the time, the reason that cause the control not to function well are
the workers and decision makers. They ignore these control functions in order
to meet their target of completion.
Insufficient Safety personnel also is one of the key factor to lose control.
Limited staff will mean limited area to cover and may impose improper
enforcement of safety procedure all throughout the entire ship.
Lack of strict safety enforcement. Due to the limited numbers of safety
personnel, sometimes they turn a blind eye in what it seems to be a low risk
task. Although in total safety management there is no low risk task, all of
them must be treated equally as to maintain a safe work environment.