Annual General Assembly 2004 - Tasmania

Session 6A

Analysis Method Of Compounding Maritime Incidents Using Fault Tree Analysis

Hidena TABUSE*, Daigo YU*, Kenji ISHIDA**,Takashi NAGAMATSU*** *Graduate school **professor ***Research associate
Faculty of Maritime Sciences, Kobe University, Japan
Fukae Minami Machi 5-1-1,Higashinada-Ku, Kobe 658-0022, Japan
k-ishida@maritime.kobe-u.ac.jp

ABSTRACT

After the oil spill incident of M/V Nakhodka, Russian oil tanker, in Japan Sea in 1996, a research group on maritime risk management has started in our university. The group has developed a roll play simulation system of many kinds of marine incidents and trained the students on the email network. At the beginning, the group set the fixed scenario for a roll simulation, then the group understood that the incidents usually accompany life saving, oil spilling, fire, flooding or sinking.

Generally, we have no incident on the transportations with well-trained operators, well-maintained machinery and well-facilitated traffi c systems. As a marine traffi c example, marine hazards of a collision, grounding, sinking, fi res or fl ooding are common at sea.

These incidents are usually investigated the causes and concluded human error from the psychological and medical viewpoints. After those incidents, it is very important to research for developing and improving safety devices or systems and understanding the reappearance of incident. An analysis method of compounding maritime incidents especially after collision using Event Tree Analysis and Fault Tree Analysis is introduced.

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