Preventing Technological Disaster Through Risk Assessment Protocol (RAP) Development For Malaysia High Tech-High Risk Industry

Technological risks approach silently and yet deadly.Once overlooked,a technological disaster incident may occur - asset damage or even losses of human life.The negative impact of technological disaster may lead to organization supply chain toward disruption as organization facilities and labor force been impacted.Based on the circumstances, it is time to establish a technological risk assessment protocol to identify and assess technological risks along high technological supply chain activities.One of the largest petroleum organization PTERONAS has been selected to investigate how the company assesses technological risks on supply chain activities and the technological risk factors that contain in each supply chain activity. A series of interview was conducted to collect the respondents answer,while collecting data were analyzed qualitatively.As a conclusion,PETRONAS obtained a great achievement on technological disaster prevention as risk assessment protocol has been enforced to assess risks on each supply chain activity.The technological risk assessment protocol contributes to preventing supply chain disruption while the identified technological risks demonstrated the high technological risk supply chain which contain double types of risks.