Hazard identification. Hazard and risk assessment for a ship when surviving

The paper presents some results of investigations regarding the development of a method for ships safety estimation in critical conditions. The objectives of investigations are briefly described including the method introduction. Special attention is paid towards application of the direct and indirect methods. Four modules of the computational model are presented including those connected with the ship/environment definition, hazard identification, hazard and risk assessment. Then, the hazard and risk assessment modules are used to show an application. A simplified cargo type ship is defined to demonstrate how the computational model can enable the risk assessment to be done for the given initiating event and scenario development (it follows from the assumed scenario of flooding the watertight compartments). The risk assessment results can be used by both the risk reduction and risk management procedures. The preliminary practical remarks regarding the ships safety estimation in critical conditions using the presented method and computational model are given.