Methods

Canadian Arctic ice Regime Shipping System (AIRSS). Method for calculating ice numeral (outside Zone/Date System Z/DS). Ice Numeral is used to decide whether the vessel should proceed or take an alternative route. https://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/marinesafety/debs-arctic-acts-regulations-airss-291.htm

Canadian Arctic Shipping Risk Assessment System (CASRAS). Integrated risk assessment system for marine transportation in the Canadian North that enables sound decision-making Link: https://nrc.canada.ca/en/research-development/products-services/technical-advisory-services/canadian-arctic-shipping-risk-assessment-system-casras

Polar Operational Limit Assessment Risk Indexing System (POLARIS). Applies a Risk Index of Risk Values (RIVs) which are assigned to a ship based on the ice class. The RIVs may be used to evaluate the limitations of the ship operating in an ice regime. Link: Polaris.pdf on sharepoint.

AISyRisk: AISyRisk is a ship traffic risk assessment tool that calculates numerical risk values for acute oil pollution and person risk utilizing high resolution AIS-data and novel calculation algorithms. Link: https://blogs.dnvgl.com/software/2019/01/new-insights-show-the-value-of-open-ocean-data/

Be-Aware: Method for calculating the ship traffic risk and size of oil spills. Link: https://www.bonnagreement.org/projects

IWRAP - IALA Waterway Risk Assessment Programme. IWRAP is a modelling tool for calculating grounding, collision and contact frequencies. Link: https://gatehouse.dk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ghMaritime-Analytics-IWRAP-Mk2-Import-2.0.pdf

MarinRisk: Contact: Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN). The MarinRisk tool is used to estimate the total expected number of accidents, oil spills and associate costs using a risk index.

SAMSON - Safety Assessment Model for Shipping and Offshore on the North Sea. Model calculates the frequency, volume, location and oil type of a potential ship-source oil spill within each grid cell. Contact: Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN).

Assessment of Marine Oil Spill Risk and Environmental Vulnerability for the State of Alaska. NOAA. RPS ASA, Env Research Cons., RPI, Louis Berger Group (2014) including Spill Risk Calculator tool. The report also includes a Literature review of methods for vulnerability and risk assessments. The method have included sea ice as a separate habitat in the vulnerability assessment.

Environmental Risk Assessment of oil spills from shipping activities around Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Coastal Administration. DNV GL (2014). In Norwegian

Marine Environmental Risk Assessment – Greenland. Defence Command Denmark. DNV GL (2015). The risk assessment was intended to quantify the likelihood of marine accidents with and without pollution by spill of oil products, oil/chemical cargo products and fuels, as well as corresponding spill volumes and environmental risk.

Risk Assessment for Marine Spills in Canadian Waters. Phase 2, Part B: Spills of Oil and Select HNS Transported as Bulk North of the 60th Parallel North. Transport Canada. WSP / SL Ross (2014). The methodology was developed to best represent and compare the relative risk of pollution from ship-source spills of oil products and select HNS transported in bulk in Canadian arctic waters. The assessment includes ice as shoreline type and made some adjustment of the Human-use index to arctic conditions (incl. Coastal Population Index).

Area Risk Assessment methodology for ship-source spills in Canadian waters. Transport Canada. Dillon, MARIN, RPS ASA, Royal Haskonig DHV (2017). Objective of this assessment was to produce a consistent methodology be used to assess the risks posed by ship-source oil spills in Canadian Waters. In addition to determine the most vulnerable areas within Canadian Waters to a ship-source oil spill.

Sub-Regional Risk of Spill of Oil and Hazardous Substances in the Baltic Sea (BRISK), HELCOM 2009-2012

BE-AWARE I and II. Bonn Agreement. COWI (2012-15). Had the objective to identify the most effective risk reducing (RRM) and response measures (RM) for the five project sub-regions in the North-sea based upon: the risk and size of oil spills calculated in the BE-AWARE I project, modelling of the outflow of oil from those spills, an environmental and socioeconomic sensitivity analysis and a combined impact assessment.

Vulnerability assessment Russia (EcoProject, Murmansk Marine Biological Institute, WWF)

Maritime activity and risk patterns in the High North. Nord University, Norway (2016)