Maritime Consultancy Services Formal Safety Assessment

Onne Port – Formal Safety Assessment (FSA)

CARES 6 Step methodology is adapted from the International Maritime Organization’s FSA guidelines and is undertaken to identify, highlight, capture, and formalize maritime safety risks. It is an independent audit and evidence-based process. Onne Port FSA (OFSA) is the fifth conducted by CARES for the Nigerian Ports Authority; our first was for the Bonny Pilotage District in 2011, followed by Lagos (2015), Calabar (2019) and Warri Pilotage District (2021).

CARES Maritime was commissioned:

• Conduct an up-to-date FSA audit for Onne port

• Base the FSA around an agreed challenge statement: To highlight the level of maritime safety risk carried by the harbour authority for ocean-going vessels accessing Onne.

• Boundary the Area of Interest to: Onne port limits, associated navigation channels; and Bonny anchorage for pilot embarkation and disembarkation.

• Conduct a gap analysis of NPA strategic level risk and safety policy documents and operational procedural directions.

• Expand the effective use of a recently instigated Risk & Opportunities Worksheet (ISO 9001:2015) to include FSA-specific procedures and structures.

• Develop example assessments and analyses based on generic Protection Functions for hazards, scenarios, causes, Risk Control Measures, ALARP, etc.

CARES Services included:

• Create: A bespoke FSA step methodology to meet the conditions pertinent to Onne port and its associated navigation channels.

• Provide: Bench-mark ‘good practice’ strategies, systems, and structures for port and navigation channel operations & management

• Provide: Risk assessment examples to develop current port maritime safety risk systems, structures, and procedures.

• Introduce: The use of a typical, appropriate, and fully scoped Risk Management software tool to establish high, medium, and low-risk analysis statements based on ‘worst credible’ and ‘most likely’ case scenarios.

• Provide: Example risk assessment components and procedures.

• Provide: A fully comprehensive final written report to highlight levels of maritime safety risk carried and recommendations for the NPA Executive (decision-makers) to consider.