ABSTRACT
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are suggested to be used as an operational tool for the purpose of managing safety (risks) in safety critical operations. The issue related to the KPIs is a selection of the practical and meaningful data that clearly represent chosen component of safety (level of risk), considering that the root causes for accidents are failures, mistakes and deficiencies of the equipment, humans and organizations. Within the EU project iNTeg-Risk (https://www.integrisk.eu-vri.eu/) the specific approach for the implementation of the KPIs was prepared (named “ERRA D1”) in order to connect the underlying risk model (using BBNs) and related information on the safety related performance. The authors were involved in the project’s testing and validation case study of the proposed approach, carried out at the selected operations in the port of Koper, Slovenia. The conclusions on testing the approach are that the approach is sound and ready to be used; however, complexity and required additional resources may be a weak point. In addition, the remaining barriers for the success were identified.
