Maritime Spatial Planning as a tool for ecosystem-based adaptive safety management of maritime transportation system in the Gulf of Finland (Baltic Sea)

Maritime Spatial Planning as a tool for ecosystem-based adaptive safety management of maritime transportation system in the Gulf of Finland (Baltic Sea)

The Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) is becoming an increasingly important tool for adaptive safety management of maritime transportation system (MTS) being ecosystembased, integrated, place-based or area-based, adaptive, strategic, anticipatory and participatory iterative process. At the same time the rapid developments in ship intelligence are transforming the future of marine operations and are adding the new complexity to adaptive safety management of MTS. In this study in progress the ships’ routing design is considered to be an important safety-critical element of ecosystem-based transboundary MSP solutions in the Gulf of Finland sea area. The STPA hazard analysis methodology is applied to identify ships’ routing design related system level hazards, corresponding safety constraints and the potentially unsafe control actions that may lead to ships’ routing hazardous design. To avoid ships’ routing hazardous design flaws the implementation of safety-guided design is suggested with aim to embed the cost-effective safety effort into the ships’ routing design process from the very beginning and to design safety into the system as the design decisions are made.

海洋空间规划（MSP）正成为海洋运输系统（MTS）适应性安全管理日益重要的工具，它是基于生态系统、综合的、基于地点或区域的、适应性的、战略性的、前瞻性的以及参与性的迭代过程。同时，船舶智能化的快速发展正在改变海洋作业的未来，并给海洋运输系统的适应性安全管理增加了新的复杂性。在这项正在进行的研究中，船舶航线设计被认为是芬兰湾海域基于生态系统的跨境海洋空间规划解决方案中一个重要的安全关键要素。应用系统理论过程分析（STPA）危险分析方法来识别与船舶航线设计相关的系统级危险、相应的安全约束以及可能导致船舶航线危险设计的潜在不安全控制行为。为避免船舶航线设计出现危险缺陷，建议实施安全导向设计，目的是从一开始就将具有成本效益的安全措施融入船舶航线设计过程中，并在做出设计决策时将安全设计到系统中。