Proceedings of the

The 33rd European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2023)
3 – 8 September 2023, Southampton, UK

A Risk Model for Recreational Craft Accidents

Christoph Alexander Thieme1,a, Asbjørn Lein Aalberg1,b, Rolf Johan Bye2 Randi Linløkken3,c, Stig Johansen3,d and Tove Aasland Torgersen3,e

1Software Engineering Safety and Security, SINTEF Digital, Norway.

2Technology Management, SINTEF Digital, Norway.

3Norwegian Maritime Authority, Norway.

ABSTRACT

The Recreational Craft Platform (RCP, Norwegian: Fritidsbåtplattformen) is being developed to collect and merge available data on recreational craft accidents and thereby enable stakeholders to actively take measures to achieve the vision. The Norwegian Maritime Authority (NMA) will be the owner of the platform, using it to analyse the causes and risks associated with recreational craft, and to identify and evaluate risk reducing measures to reduce the number of accidents significantly. This paper presents the risk model for recreational craft accidents, developed together with the NMA that will support NMA's and their partners work to achieve these goals. The risk model was developed following NMA's existing risk modelling approach, with focus on the accident frequency of motorboats, sailing boats and personal watercraft. The model will be employed to assess effectiveness of measure and visualizing the contributing factors within the RCP.

Keywords: Accident modelling, Recreational craft, Risk influencing factors, Risk model, Influence diagram.



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