Assessment of the Reliability of Marine Installation Escape, Evacuation, and Rescue Systems and Procedures

• Main Authors: Frank G. Bercha, Milan Cerovšek, Wesley Abel
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: KEY WORDS; Escape; evacuation; rescue; EER; Arctic; offshore; human
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.535.6932; http://www.berchagroup.com/publications/2403-JSC-223.pdf

This paper describes analyses developed for the assessment of reliability and performance characteristics of different escape, evacuation, and rescue (EER) components and their integrated performance as an EER system for different offshore installations and operating conditions. In the analyses presented herein, a computerized probabilistic EER simulator (PEERS) in its fourth version called the Risk and Performance Tool (RPT), uses an optimal combination of risk analysis and simulation. Essentially, the RPT simultaneously models the evolution of risks and times of performance for each of the activities, operations, and components, comprising an EER process under given operational, environmental, and accident conditions. In this paper, following a detailed description of the methodology utilized in the development of the RPT including the basis for input data, algorithms, and results, several typical offshore EER configurations for different conditions are analyzed and representative results are presented.