Shipping Risk Management

Day One: The Basics of Shipping Risk

• Seaborne trade, port management and shipping – an introduction
• Risk, safety and existing perceptions
• Offshore, onshore and port risks
• Human behaviour as a risk factor
• The role of management culture in determining risk
• Maritime regulations, laws and codes, and their application in the risk environment

Day Two: Current Best Practice

• The theories behind Hazard Identification Methodology
• Practical steps towards identifying, assessing and managing specific maritime risks
• Drafting, delivering and operating effective risk management processes
• Trends and opportunities: the consolidation and digitization of risk management
• Marine Insurance law and practice
• Current Health & Safety practice and procedure

Day Three: Key Risk Management and Prioritization

• Key risk control assessment practices and examples
• Typical hazard rating metrics and their application to real world commerce
• The ethics of risk commercialization
• Five easy steps towards risk reduction
• Staff, crew and process management – how each can contribute to a safety-first goal
• Risk and loss – financial, human and the wider legal, procedural and operational consequences

Day Four: Common Maritime Accidents, Causes and Remedies

• The typical causes of avoidable accidents
• The true costs of human behaviours, shortcuts, negligence and recklessness
• A practical delegate-centric risk assessment, management and mitigation appraisal
• How cultural differences can cause confusion and risk escalation among crew and operatives
• Emergency preparedness – achieving cost-effectiveness through good management practice
• The role of management in managing and mitigating risks
  

Day Five: Maximizing Stakeholder Value throughout the Supply Chain

• Developing a robust culture of collaborative stakeholder best practice
• Engendering a “right-first-time-every-time” philosophy
• Operating a functioning end-to-end stakeholder led supply-chain risk management model
• Workplace culture – the benefits and risks of standardization
• The value of teamwork and the creation of open dialogue information sharing
• Learning lessons from audit, observation, reporting, behaviour and precedent