Risk Based Certification

About the training

Innovative solutions - such as alternative fuels to support industry decarbonisation, and digitalisation through automation and autonomous vessels - often sit outside the scope of prescriptive rules. In these cases, goal-based rules and regulations set the safety goals and functional requirements to be achieved, and risk assessment provides evidence that a new or novel design meets the intended or an equivalent level of safety.

Lloyd’s Register’s RBC process offers a structured, scalable route to apply this risk-based approach - but what is required, how is safety acceptance demonstrated, and who is responsible?

RBC reflects the guidelines within IMO 1455 on ‘Approval of Alternatives and Equivalents’ and is used where: prescriptive rules do not exist or are limited; and, where risk assessment is required to satisfy goal-based rules and gain regulatory acceptance.

You will receive a certificate upon successful completion of the course.

Course duration

Classroom based: 1.5 days

Virtual class: 3 days (3 hours per day)

Who should attend?

The course is suitable for all stakeholders in ship design, construction, management and approvals relating to alternative design and arrangements, e.g. representatives of Flag States, Ship Designers, Naval Architects, Ship Construction and Repair Yards, Original Equipment Manufacturers, Ship Owners and Managers.

Course objectives

This training course on RBC and the use of risk assessment aims to provide a shared understanding of:

• LR’s five stage process of Risk Based Certification (RBC);
• the concept of risk and the drivers for risk assessment in maritime regulation; and
• risk assessment and appraisal to inform certification and acceptance of alternative designs.

Key content

Through instructor-led sessions and group discussions, facilitated by experienced Lloyd’s Register Specialists, you will be able to answer the following questions:

• What is RBC?
• Is RBC asking for too much?
• What has led us to goal-based rules & RBC?
• What’s the difference between prescription & goal-based rules and regulations?
• How is RBC undertaken?
• What is risk?
• How do we measure and evaluate risk?
• What are the key risk assessment techniques?