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Report No: 05<strong>NZ</strong>104 <strong>WELLINGTON</strong> <strong>HARBOUR</strong><br />

Issue: Issue 1.1 Operational Risk Assessment<br />

It should be noted that occasionally, most likely scenarios can generate<br />

higher risk levels than worst credible; this is due to the increased frequency<br />

naturally associated with the most likely event. In effect, the assessment is<br />

scoring the risk associated with two different outcomes from the same<br />

initiating event. This tends to occur when consequence levels are similar<br />

between most likely and worst case and/or where the frequency of the worst<br />

credible is very much less than that of the most likely.<br />

Where the most likely event does show higher risk levels it is worthy of<br />

special note as, for example, in the case of berthing contact, it may be<br />

suggesting that a large number of small berthing contact damages are of<br />

greater loss significance than a single heavy contact at a much lesser<br />

frequency.<br />

3.1.1 Hazard Ranking for Risk Mitigation Assessment – Hazman Software<br />

The risk data of each of the four categories (Life, Property, Environment and<br />

Port Business) was analysed within the Hazman software to obtain four<br />

indices for each hazard as follows:<br />

a) The average risk value of the four categories in the ‘Most Likely’ set.<br />

b) The average risk value of the four categories in the ‘Worst Credible’ set.<br />

c) The maximum risk value of the four categories in the ‘Most Likely’ set.<br />

d) The maximum risk value of the four categories in the ‘Worst Credible’ set.<br />

Average risk values are sensitive towards hazards that score moderately or<br />

highly over a number of categories, whilst the maximum risk values are<br />

sensitive towards hazards which score particularly high in any category.<br />

These values are combined in the Hazman software to produce a numeric<br />

value representing each of the four indices. The hazard list was then sorted<br />

in order of the aggregate of the four indices to produce a Ranked Hazard<br />

List, in descending order, with the highest risk hazards prioritised at the top.<br />

This list, comprising 78 hazards, is produced in full in Annex E. This<br />

Ranked Hazard List describes the Risk Profile of the Harbour with regard to<br />

navigational operations.<br />

The use of the Most-Likely and Worst-Credible approach is very useful in<br />

obtaining a transparent risk assessment in the eyes of practical<br />

stakeholders, and these abound around maritime activities. The most likely<br />

event references outcomes that those with professional experience of the<br />

harbour can relate to. The concept of the Worst-Credible event is a<br />

consequence of outcome that is a realistic worst accident outcome. This is<br />

Greater Wellington Regional Council /<br />

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