National Maritime Research Institute (NMRI) held
the Workshop with regard to Risk-Based Approaches to maritime industries


　　　　　　NMRI (Shiro Inoue, the president of NMRI), held the Workshop named “Open Workshop on Risk-Based Approaches” in 22nd and 23rd of May.

　　　　　　(Workshop Program)

　　　　　　The Workshop is co-organized by the EU funded project SAFEDOR which aims to improve maritime safety and to strengthen European maritime industries competitiveness and with support and cooperation with the Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineer (JASNAOE) and Japan Ship Technology Research Association (JSTRA). The Workshop mainly concentrates on risk-based ship design and approval and the effects when the new approaches will be introduced. During the Workshop, a wide range of valuable 16 presentations from Europe, Korea and Japan and very active and substantial discussion among presenters and audience took place. 101 experts participated and received state-of-the-art information on risk-based ship design and approval, risk modelling and risk evaluation criteria, and future goal-based regulations of IMO.

　　　　　　　　　The concept of risk-based approach was partly but first introduced to shipping in the beginning of 1960’s as probabilistic damage stability. Since the risk-based approach based on numerical analysis is feasible today, many people consider this approach as a new reliable design method to complement traditional deterministic design methods. Therefore, many R&D activities in this approach have been carried out not only for predicting specific safety performance of ships but also predicting holistic safety performance including structural reliability, fire protection, flooding and navigation performance of the ship.

　　　　　　　　In his introductory talk, Mr. Koichi Yoshida, Director of Centre for International Cooperation at NMRI, underlined why risk-based approaches are important for the maritime industry. He said that “the workshop aims to improve the understanding of risk-based approaches and to intensify international collaboration possibilities for future rational and practical rule making.”

　　　　　On the 1st day of the Workshop, presenters introduced latest technological achievements with respect to risk-based design, Risk models, tools, cost-benefit analysis, prediction of capsizing probability of an intact ship etc. and discussed the availability of tools and applicability of the new approach. On the 2nd day of the Workshop, the presenters introduced a possible approval process for risk-based ship systems, criteria for risk assessment and current IMO discussion relating to Goal-Based Standards and Safety Level Approach.