DOC N°: HSE-PR002

Société Meriem de Transport et

Risk Identification & Assessment

COMPANY: CONTRCATOR: SMTTS

20.11.2020 KHALED HADDED Abdrahmen Meddeb Malek Meddeb

Date Prepared By Checked By Approved By

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1. Objective

The purpose of this procedure is to provide a framework for formally identifying and assessing
risks to operations and ensuring that the proportional mitigation measures are in place to enable
operations in the safest possible manner in line with the As Low as Reasonably Practicable
(ALARP) methodology, prior to the commencement of any task.

2. DEFINITIONS

Event: Occurrence or change of a particular set of circumstances

Intolerable: Unacceptable risks and additional measures are required to reduce them to at least
ALARP. These measures have to be implemented even if they require significant resources or
fundamental changes in the activities and systems.

Risk: The product of the likelihood that a specified undesired event will occur and the severity
of the consequences of said event.
Risk = Severity x Likelihood

Likelihood: The probability of an event or situation taking place. Likelihood is typically used to
refer to events that have a reasonable probability of occurring, but are not definite or may be
influenced by factors not yet observed or measured.

Severity: The degree to which an incident is impacting upon People, Environment, Reputation
and Assets.

3. Risk Assessment:

A careful consideration by competent people of the hazards associated with a task. The potential
effect of each hazard, how severe it might be and the likelihood of it occurring.

Hazard
An undesired, work related event, which could result in:
 Harm to people, and/or
  Damage to assets, facilities and/or
 Damage to the environment and/or losses to assets
 Harm to the Company's reputation

ALARP
These are tolerable risks as long as they fulfill the following criteria
There is a trade-off between cost of risk reduction and benefit obtained.
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 This process is not one of balancing cost and benefit but rather, of adopting measures
except where ruled out because they involve grossly disproportionate sacrifices.
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  The risk controls corresponds to relevant good practice.

 All aspects and safeguards are thoroughly known.

4. Roles and Responsibilities

This procedure makes it incumbent upon all employees to apply robust risk management
processes when fulfilling responsibilities defined under the HSSE Policy and associated
governance documents. The only exception to this requirement is where the application of a risk
based approach would result in non-compliance with legal requirements.

The key roles and responsibilities for the implementation of the HSSE Risk Management
Procedure are summarized:

General Manager:
 Ensure that competent person(s) monitor and maintain the HSSE Risk Registers Risk
Registers are subject to regular reviews and treatment plans are in place to mitigate
 identified risks through their line management organization
  The procedure is effectively implemented for all operations with identified risk potential
 Adequate resources and competency are provided to fulfill the HSSE requirements of the
task

HSSE Manager:
  Communicating and training on-site personnel in Incident/Accident reporting
 Maintaining up-to-date Risk Registers for all aspects of the operation
 Ensuring regular reviews of Risk Registers and promulgating any subsequent updates
 Collecting and distributing Incident/Accident reports
  Monitoring the follow up of treatment plans with on-site personnel
 Compiling incident/accident statistics and achieving qualitative and quantitative
analysis

5. Risk Assessment

The Risk Assessment process involves the identification, analysis and evaluation of risks and
ensures that daily risks are dealt with through normal operating routines.

Risk Assessment may require both qualitative and/or quantitative evaluations, depending on the
nature of the risk being assessed. The complexity of the evaluation required shall be driven by a
risk based process and shall use appropriate analysis techniques to determine the magnitude and
nature of the risks being scrutinized. The assessed risk levels shall be evaluated against
established criteria and identify risks that require further reduction. Specific minimum
requirements for risk assessments shall be applied have been recorded within the procedure
and/or recommendations associated with this Standard.
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The Risk Assessment process shall involve all relevant internal and external stakeholders and
knowledgeable personnel and this may require the formation of assessment teams to ensure all
relevant knowledge is available. For each identified risk, a Risk Owner shall be specified to
manage the Risk Assessment and subsequent treatment. This may include collaborating with
other stakeholders to access the relevant expertise, knowledge and data.

6. Risk Identification

Hazards which have the potential to cause harm to people, environment asset and reputation
shall be identified. The identification process includes but is not limited to the following:
 Hazard identification method(s) appropriate for the factors influencing the magnitude
 and nature of the risk(s)
  Requirement for contribution from people with relevant knowledge and experience;
 Systematically identify the range of potential HSSE hazards, incidents, causes, controls
 and effects for each activity
 Categorize incidents as major accident events, occupational incidents, exposures,
environmental aspects and health aspects to enable similar risks to be grouped for
analysis, evaluation, management and reporting
 Hazard observations (e.g. Management Walk Around)
 Brainstorming workshops
 Incident, Near Miss records and investigations; and

7. Risk Analysis

The analysis of the identified risk(s) shall provide an understanding of the magnitude of the
risk(s) by estimating how often the hazardous events could occur and the severity of their effects.
Risk analysis provides an input to risk evaluation and to decisions about whether risks need to be
treated. It requires the consideration of causes and sources of risks, their positive and negative
consequences, and the likelihood that those consequences can occur. An event can have multiple
consequences and can affect multiple objectives. Existing controls and their effectiveness and
efficiency shall also be taken into account.

8. Evaluation

The risk evaluation is where the risks associated with the hazard shall be compared using
criteria to determine if the control measures are sufficient. For each hazard sufficient prevention
and mitigation measures shall be in place to reduce the residual risk to acceptable or at least to
tolerable levels. If the evaluation yields an unacceptable risk, additional risk reduction measures
shall be identified. The risk evaluation shall demonstrate the necessity and effectiveness of the
safeguards which may have been implemented to prevent or mitigate undesired consequences.
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The results of the risk evaluation shall be compared against the defined risk acceptability criteria
and shall be completed by checking the need for additional risk reduction measures which may
arise if:
 Requested by law regardless of whether the risk evaluation yields tolerable or acceptable
 risks;
  Residual risk is considered as intolerable;
 Residual risk does not fulfill the ALARP criteria; and
 Requested by line management for continuous improvement and risk reduction.

Keeping risks as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP) is a priority. However, the ALARP
principle shall be applied with caution as it does not remove the obligation on managers to apply
the principle of Continual Risk Reduction. As such, ALARP justification is a last resort where all
other options have been exhausted.

9. Risk Matrix

6. Risk Treatment

For risk reduction the following principles shall be adhered to in the given order:
 Eliminate – the hazard shall be removed altogether by use of a less hazardous
 alternative, or by eliminating its need altogether.
 Tolerate – if it is not possible to eliminate the hazard then it is necessary to determine
whether the risk it poses can be tolerated – i.e. it is within the risk acceptance criteria. If
this is true no further risk reduction action may be needed although the principle of
Continual Risk Reduction applies. The risk should be regularly monitored to ensure that
the risk remains at ALARP level.
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 Reduce – if the risk is intolerable, then measures need to be put in place to manage the
risk to a tolerable level, existing measures shall also be reviewed to ensure their
 continuing adequacy. These measures are explained below.
 Transfer – if the risk cannot be reduced to a tolerable level, then it may be possible to
transfer some or all of the risks through the use of competent 3rd parties and/or use of
insurance. Please note that obligation for worker protection etc. cannot be transferred

If the risk is still intolerable, then the activity shall not continue and an alternative shall be
sought.

When treating the risk the following steps shall be taken to apply suitable safeguards:
 Prevent – put in place safeguards to prevent a hazardous event occurring by
 interrupting the causes;
 Detect – rapid detection of the hazardous events allows the early deployment of
 reactive safeguards with benefits in managing the consequences of an event;
 Control – containing the hazardous event, removing sources of energy, and preventing
it from escalating ensures that consequences are minimized. Such controls shall have
performance measures set and verification tools to monitor their continuing
 effectiveness;
 Mitigate – mitigating the effects of the hazardous event involves dealing with the
 consequence such as firefighting and evacuation of personnel; and
 Recover – dealing with the aftermath of a hazardous event and returning to an operational
state is essential for the on-going health of the organization. This step includes
investigating the incident, clean-up, restoring operation and communicating with
stakeholders.

7. Risk Monitoring and Review

The review of all risk assessments shall be embedded in the culture and practices to being an
integral part of the continuous improvement process. Notwithstanding the requirement for
Continual Risk Reduction and the need to maintain a constant monitoring of the site risk
profile, all risk assessments shall be reviewed routinely (each site has an at-least a yearly
review cycle) and/or more frequently when there is any good reason, e.g.:
 When changes in the organizations, procedure, systems or legislation occur
 Following relevant incidents or near misses (external and internal); and
  If new significant information becomes available
 Monitoring and review processes shall include:
 Continuous monitoring and review, e.g. checking process conditions
 Line Management review, e.g. project, risk assessment and performance reviews
 Auditing
  A review of action plans
 Confirmation that cost vs. benefit evaluations still is relevant/current etc.
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 A review of the integration between evaluations/assessments – especially within high

Audit and review will be used to ensure continuous improvement with regard to the application
of this procedure across the operation across all business activities.
Both internal and external audits shall be undertaken on a regular basis in order to provide an
assessment of performance against key performance criteria and ensure that all possible best
practices are being implemented.