Paper No. 2003- Last (family) name of the first author Page number Human Performance in Arctic Offshore Escape, Evacuation, and Rescue

• Main Authors: Frank G. Bercha, Chris J. Brooks, Fred Leafloor
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: KEY WORDS; Escape; evacuation; rescue; EER; Arctic; offshore; human; Canada
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.536.3058; http://www.berchagroup.com/publications/2303-JSC-208.pdf

As part of a comprehensive escape, evacuation, and rescue (EER) research program sponsored by the Transportation Development Centre of Transport Canada, the co-authors have investigated human performance under extreme conditions involving physical and mental stress. Part of the work focused on personnel performance in emergency evacuation situations causing extreme mental stress from offshore accident conditions, with Arctic environmental conditions also adding extreme physical stress. Because only limited and anecdotal data on human performance under such extreme conditions are available, and dedicated experiments would clearly be unacceptable, analysis of human performance under life-threatening conditions has been approached through the development of a computer model based on data from the literature giving unit error rates and times of performance, and on discussions with experts. The paper presents the background, methodology, computer program description, and gives examples of several different Arctic EER scenarios analysed and selected comparative non-Arctic scenario results.