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Formal Safety Assessment of Houseboat Umt
(Siti Maya) At Tasik Kenyir
Mohammad Zul Halim Al-Hafiz Bin Zakaria
Supervisor: Capt. Noor Apandi Bin Osnin
Bachelor of Science (Nautical Science and Maritime Transport)
School of Ocean Engineering
mhdzulhalim@gmail.com
Houseboat of UMT which is located at the Kenyir Lake, is the mobile lab named ‘Siti
Maya’, has been built for providing basic amenities for research and accommodation
especially for student of UMT, providing transport to the focal point and recreation
in the Kenyir Lake, as a camp when researchers conduct a survey and also to enhance
research on the development of mineral resources in the Kenyir Lake. In this study,
the hazards of the houseboat’s (Siti Maya) operation in Kenyir Lake that may
threatening the safety of the researchers or passengers or crews was identified and
analyse. The assessment approach in this study was divided into three main phases.
The first phase was the process of identifying all the hazards of the mobile lab, ‘Siti
Maya’ by having a series of interview selected person, survey and observing. In the
second phase, the hazards identified was analyse by using risk assessment: (Risk
Matrix) that define the level of risk by considering the category of probability severity
using the data from the respondent by answering some question that have been
made. The work describe in this research is concerned with the systematic analysis
hazards of the mobile lab ‘Siti Maya’. This assessment method is considered an
essential approach for providing a much better basis for safety decision making.
Finally, some suggestion for the best control option in order to reduce the risk of ‘Siti
Maya’ are made.
Keywords: Risk assessment, Mobile lab UMT ‘Siti Maya’
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