TITLE:
Human Health Risk Assessment in Shahid Rajaee Container Terminal
AUTHORS:
Abdollah Jafari, Saeid Givehchi, Mahnaz Nasrabadi
KEYWORDS:
Human Risks, Container Terminal, Safety Management
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Ecology,
Vol.6 No.11,
October
31,
2016
ABSTRACT: As the ports play a prominent role in the national economy of the
countries and a number of factors such as safety condition of the port and low
rate or non-occurrence of accidents are greatly important for being selected
as a destination for cargo owners to bring their vessels and cargo therein,
giving due care to safety related issues in ports and harbors is among jurisdictional
and sensitive duties of the authorities in ports and maritime areas. Enjoying
some 3000 km of marine coastlines and more than 10 commercial ports throughout
the country, Iran is no exception where its ports are responsible for cargo import
and export. In this respect, container terminals are one of the high-risk areas
in ports requiring extensive care of the pertaining authorities to take
appropriate measures to maintain safety standard there. One of the significant
methods and techniques for the risk assessment is P&HRAM as to the
containers terminals. This method has been employed in this research taking
into account the operation attributes of the works in ports and harbors. This
method provided appropriate answers to the research questions in that it was
predicted that the great part of the activities in container terminal poses a
higher risk from human perspective than expected requiring some measures to be
taken to mitigate the risks to a tolerable level. This research was conducted
and the results demonstrated that more than 75% of the risks in container
terminals are higher than acceptable level about which some measures were taken
and the risks were reduced to 100% lower than tolerable level.