Risk-Based Marine Inspection Performance Measures

Authors

Christina Mary Bailey, Mitchell William Caisse, Erika Kirichenko, Nicholas Ryan Smith

Sponsor

United States Coast Guard

Advisors

James Hanlan, David DiBiasio

Term

October – December 2013

Project Outcomes

Final Report

Abstract

The objective of this project was to standardize the way risk reduction is measured during marine vessel inspections, based on the deficiencies found on each vessel by the Coast Guard. Over the course of the project, we researched past performance measure models, in addition to working closely with the MISLE database and Coast Guard personnel to determine which factors should be included in our analysis. We then created a prototype model, based on the vessel data from the past decade, for automatically assigning risk-reduction values to various deficiencies.