Risk and Incident Management in a Port Environment

This course is practice-oriented with a preventive and reactive component. The first part of the
course will focus on preventive risk management in ports. In the second part, participants will be
given tools for reactive incident management. Both parts include a theoretical and practical
framework in which participants will actively think about the application in their own ports. The
programme consists of 4 modules:

Introduction to risk management in ports:

• Types of risks in a port environment
• Responsibilities in risk management
• Best practices & standards – local
  framework in the Caribbean region

Introduction to risk management in ports:

• Workshops on tools and techniques to
  create risk assessment models
• Benchmark of risk analysis in Caribbean
  ports

Incident response exercise:

• (Virtual) exercises on incident response
  methods through scenarios
• Comparison of scenarios based on case
  studies from participants

Introduction to incident management in ports:

• Incident response frameworks
• Emergency response coordination &
  internal crisis organisation
• Emergency response cooperation with
  ports & cities
• Nautical incidents
• Oil spill response
• Communication and reporting during and
  after incidents