SAFETY AUDIT FOR INLAND WATERWAYS TERMINAL

Abstract

The dissertation is focused to identify the potential and existing safety threats associated with the inland waterways terminals. The research is inspired by increasing numbers of accidents at the inland waterways terminals, for example in August 2015 there were many explosions occurred at Tianjin port in China, these explosions killed more than 160 people and hundreds of people were injured. So to avoid such accidents in the future we tried to develop a safety audit methodology which includes various parameters, these parameters should be inspected and audited at regular intervals to avoid any potential threats to the workers or passengers at the terminal. The method used is standard safety audit method, which includes three stages as pre-audit, audit and post-audit. Main aspects covered in the audit are general safety measures which includes emergency preparedness of the management system, fire safety which include firefighting systems and fire detection, electrical safety which includes fire hazards due to electrical equipment and training given to the workers those who are using that equipment. Indian inland waterways are in the developing stage so this study can be helpful to identify and rectify the potential hazards as soon as possible. For our study we have chosen the inland waterway multi-modal terminal of Varanasi. Findings of the study is mentioned in the result and finding section of the dissertation