6. Introducing a Scenario of a Seaport’s HSEQ Framework: Review and a Case in Northern Finland

This paper addresses health, safety, environment and quality (HSEQ) issues, specifically on the HSEQ Assessment Procedure (AP) of a Finnish industrial network. The need for and practical application possibilities of using the HSEQ AP in the management of a port is addressed in detail. The port is situated within the northern Barents Region. The study concentrates on the information acquired from previous implementations of this AP in the supply network of the paper, chemical and steel companies (process industry) and the existing criteria and practices of evaluations using this audit-style approach. The empirical interview part of this study was conducted mainly in Northern Finland. Some information and impressions on HSEQ were also gathered during a visit to Russia’s Murmansk Commercial Seaport, in the largest part of the Barents Region. The paper has its document-based and interview-based parts. The former consists of a thorough review of scientific and industrial documents and the latter refers to hearing about HSEQ issues in the field from the interviewed representatives of a maritime company network (a case). The combination of these approaches provides us with recommendations and scenarios for further consideration.