Airport Mega Project Risk Assessment

This assignment focuses on a risk assessment of a mega airport construction project. It identifies potential risks to various areas including hydrology, water quality, biodiversity, noise, air quality, community health, and waste management. The document utilizes a risk matrix to evaluate the likelihood and consequences of these risks, ultimately aiming to guide safe and efficient construction practices.

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Risk Assessment on Development of Western Sydney Airport
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Introduction
The report is based on the risk assessment for development of Western Sydney Airport.
Construction work is itself a hazardous work as people are harmed which also impacts on health
and death of people. This particular report summarizes the risk assessment process which is used
to identify the airport construction risks along with risk management plan. The objective of risk
management plan is to reduce the likelihood and consequences of the risks. Risk matrix is also
provided to identify the level of identified risks.
1. Risk Assessment Process
Following are the techniques which are used to identify the risks into the mega project:
Brainstorming: It is used as higher level of risk identification technique where the issues
are identified and reviewed for particular airport construction problems.
Checklists: This technique is used for reducing failure to compensate potential limits of
the human memory. It helps to ensure that entire project work is analyzed to identify the risks
(Chang, Shao & Chen, 2015).
Preliminary hazard analysis: It is focused to identify the hazards, assess consequences
of the risk and provide mitigation strategies to overcome with those risks. This particular
technique is focused on identifying weakness of the mega project.
HAZOP: This technique identifies construction related hazards into the project along
with the operational issues (Moretti et al., 2018). The main objective of this technique is risk
identification.

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Business impact analysis: This technique identifies the impacts of all the risks; it evaluates the potential effects of those risks
on people and the airport project as result of disaster and accident.
2. Risk Management Plan
Type of
risk
Cause Impact Likelihood Consequenc
e
Risk
level
Risk mitigation strategies Risk owner
Noise and
vibration
The machines
which are used for
construction
purpose causes
mechanized
activities and
increases noisy.
The noise
impacts on
the health
and life.
Occasional Major Very
high
There should be decrease of
noise level with 63dB which
is measured between 6am to
midnight.
Airport
authority and
construction
organization
Air quality The construction of
airport generates
lot of dust; there is
emission of
pollution and
gases.
It affects
the human
health.
Seldom Major High risk There should use of such
vehicles which reduces the
emission of harmful gases
(Smith et al., 2014).
Australian
government
Community
health
It is caused by
reducing of
regional air quality
which is associated
with the operations
of aircraft.
It provides
impacts on
health of
the user
community.
Remote Minor Low risk There should be a close
relationship with the
community through the
system engineering project
life cycle (Kelly, Male &
Graham, 2014).
Airport
authority
Surface It is caused by the It provides Frequent Major Very People near the construction Australian

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transport
and access
construction traffic
interacting with the
local traffic (Adler
et al., 2015).
injury and
death of
employees
and
surrounding
people.
high risk site are required to aware
about the development work
of airport.
government
Biodiversity There are potential
leakages of wastes
from the
contaminants from
site of airport
which are thrown
into the nearby
water sources.
It impacts
on the
water
quality,
threatened
life of the
species.
Occasional Serious High risk Proper guidelines and
measures are taken in order
to improve capacity of the
local government to manage
the roadside activities
(Halpern & Graham, 2015).
Australian
government
Hydrology
and water
quality
The ingredients
come from the
construction
vehicles are thrown
into the water
bodies which
caused the water to
pollute.
It affects
the human
health.
Frequent Minor High risk Proper place should be
selected to throw the waste
materials of construction.
Australian
government
Waste and
resources
There is generation
of the construction
waste.
It provides
impacts on
health.
Remote Serious Medium
risk
There is requirement of
sustainable waste
management in order to
protect human health along
with environment and
conserve of resources.
Airport
authority and
construction
organization

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3. Risk Matrix
Likelihood
Consequences
Incidental
(1)
Minor (2) Serious (3) Major (4) Catastrophic (5)
Frequent (5) Hydrology
and water
quality
Surface
transport and
access
Occasional
(4)
Biodiversity Noise and
vibration
Seldom (3) Air quality
Remote (2) Community
health
Waste and
resources
Unlikely (1)
Table 1: Risk matrix table
Red color = Very high risk
Orange color = High risk
Yellow color = Medium risk
Green color = Low risk
Conclusion
It is concluded that the risk assessment helps the mega project to plan and design safe
along with efficient construction work. Construction of the airport is most critical work, as
management of safety requirements is difficult. Safety assurance is the key issue; therefore daily
inspections are required of construction site based on the checklist risk assessment technique.
Both the initial as well as final inspections are involved controller along with pilots.

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