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Assessing the risk during mustering in large passenger vessels: A digital tool for real time decision support
Published in Selma Ergin, C. Guedes Soares, Sustainable Development and Innovations in Marine Technologies, 2022
A. Koimtzoglou, N. Themelis, N.P. Ventikos, K. Louzis, M. Koimtzoglou, K. Giannakis, P. Panagiotidis, S. Moustogiannis, M. Ramiro, J. Peña, D. Gomez, J. Ruiz, A. Gardel, P. Kavassalis, N. Traintafyllou, K. Ksystra
Digital world and its capabilities can be utilized from the passenger ship industry to enhance the evacuation process and improve safety onboard. The deployment of an automated emergency evacuation solution can drastically improve emergency communications. In case of a ship evacuation incident, the most important task is to ensure that all passengers and crew are accounted for and marked safe. Digital emergency evacuation solutions improve the emergency response drastically. Real-time updates can provide critical knowledge to an incident commander and real-time access to ship systems data holds the potential to improve safety and response capabilities (e.g. a list of the missing people can be broadcasted to the smart devices associated with the emergency evacuation). This real-time information may provide automatic updates on who is still missing or unaccounted for and pinpoint their last known location.
Occupational Health and Safety
Published in Terry Jacobs, Andrew A. Signore, Good Design Practices for GMP Pharmaceutical Facilities, 2016
Most countries have regulatory codes detailing the design requirements for emergency evacuation routes. However, performance-based designs are becoming much more popular. NFPA 101, “Life Safety Code,” is a globally recognized consensus standard that allows for performance-based egress designs (Figure 15.13). At the heart of performance-based designs is a risk assessment.
Studies on emergency evacuation management for maritime transportation
Published in Maritime Policy & Management, 2018
Peiman Alipour Sarvari, Emre Cevikcan, Alp Ustundag, Metin Celik
In addition, some researchers performed analyses on different approaches and techniques considering aircraft emergency evacuation processes (Zhi-Ming et al. 2014; Miyoshi et al. 2012). Liu et al. (2014) analysed the effects of passengers’ physical characteristics on emergency evacuation time. They developed a new grid-based simulation approaches based on the waist size of passengers. The effectiveness of the proposed simulation model has been demonstrated on Boeing 767-300 aircraft. The best development of this work was the paper of Fang et al. (2016), which simulated the evacuation of Airbus A380 using a Finer-Grid Civil Aircraft Evacuation model. They considered the effect of seat area on escape process and pedestrian’s ‘hesitation’ before leaving in their model, plus they defined an optimized rule of exit choice.