Research project focusing on risk-based tools for ship safety inspection
The Maritime Risk and System Safety (MaRiSa) research group, led by Professor Jens-Uwe Schröder-Hinrichs, has joined the SAFEPEC research project focused on innovative risk-based tools for ship safety inspection.
SAFEPEC is MaRiSa’s sixth project that falls under the European 7th Framework Programme on research and technological development. The Kick-off meeting was held in Portugal on 2 October and WMU was represented by Associate Professor Dr.-Ing. Michael Baldauf and MaRiSa’s most recent member, Research Assistant Armando Graziano.
The SAFEPEC consortium consists of 9 core partners, and another 12 associated partners, from the shipping industry including classification societies and shipping companies, private and public research institutions, and administrations from seven European countries. The research and development work is coordinated by the Portuguese ICT company Glintt Global Intelligent Technologies, S.A. The total volume of the three-year project is 3,7 million of which 2,5 million is financed by funding from the European Commission. The remaining funding comes from industrial partners in the consortium.
WMU will be involved in a number of work packages for the project and will lead work package 1 that deals with detailed analyses of existing data sources on accidents and near misses available from different stakeholders in maritime industry and administrations. The overall aim of SAFEPEC is to contribute to increased levels of safety by identifying potential areas for improvement and developing strategies to improve inspection regimes.
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About SAFEPEC |
Innovative risk-based tools for ship safety inspection- project aims to promote proactive safety and develop a unified risk-based framework built upon the analysis of historical data of casualties, near miss cases, deficiencies and non-conformities that are detected by various types of inspections. Another outcome of the project is a software prototype that enables the interoperability and coherent interpretation of those data sources; and can contribute to the early detection of failure, either in the ship structure or its equipment. Workshops and other engagement activities will be organised to collect the stakeholder views about the products developed during the project. Based on the feedback obtained along these events, a set of recommendations for proactive ship inspection policy will be elaborated. |