End-user and stakeholder views on selected risk assessment tools for marine oil spill preparedness and response, including future research and development needs

F. Goerlandt, V. Laine, E. Bal Beşikçi, M. Baldauf, M. A. Al-Quhali, Y. Koldenhof

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Abstract

Risks in the maritime domain have various sources, of which the transportation of oil and other noxious products is one of key concern to industry and public stakeholders. Operational or accidental releases of oil or other pollutants from ships or offshore facilities into the marine environment can have disastrous effects on the marine ecosystems, while also leading to very significant economical losses. Therefore, national states have implemented various mechanisms for preventing and responding to pollution in the maritime domain, with activities which are often embedded in regional cooperation frameworks clustered around certain sea areas. To support collaborative, harmonized, and risk-informed oil spill Pollution Preparedness and Response (PPR) planning for response authorities, the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM), together with its research partners, and with extensive end-user and stakeholder inputs, have developed the OpenRisk Toolbox. This toolbox includes several risk assessment tools and techniques, which can assist in providing answers to a range of PPR risk management questions in a range of organizational contexts. To better understand and ensure the applicability and usefulness of the OpenRisk Toolbox, a workshop was organized where some of these tools were tested. Selected end user and stakeholder views on the perceived usefulness of the tools were collected and analyzed. Another workshop focused on further development needs to implement the tools in organizational practices. This paper first presents the OpenRisk Toolbox, then describes the settings of the workshops. Finally, a summary of the end-user and stakeholder views on the tested tools, and on future development needs, is given.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)213-220
Number of pages8
JournalTransNav
Volume13
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2019

Bibliographical note

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© 2019, Faculty of Navigation, Gdynia Maritime University. All rights reserved.

Funding

The work in this article has been executed as part of the OpenRisk and BONUS BALTIMARI projects. OpenRisk has received funding from the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (EC DG-ECHO), and is supported by the European regional agreements on pollution preparedness and response, the European Maritime Safety Agency, and the Norwegian Coastal Administration. BONUS BALTIMARI has received funding from BONUS (Art 185) funded jointly by the European Union and from Baltic Sea national funding institutions: the Academy of Finland (Finland), the Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (FORMAS) (Sweden), and the Forschungszentrum Jülich Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany). This support is gratefully acknowledged.

FundersFunder number
BONUS
EC DG-ECHO
European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations
European Maritime Safety Agency
European regional agreements on pollution preparedness and response
Norwegian Coastal Administration
Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning
European Commission
Svenska Forskningsrådet Formas
Academy of Finland
Forschungszentrum Jülich

    Keywords

    • Baltic marine environment protection commission (HELCOM)
    • Marine environment
    • Marine oil spill
    • Oil spill
    • Oil spill response
    • Pollution preparedness and response (PPR)
    • Risk assessment
    • Risk assessment tools

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