Ship evacuation services

Reliable simulation from Lloyds Register

As a designer or operator of a passenger vessel, you need to be able to optimise passenger and crew movements in the event of an emergency. The evaluation of escape routes by evacuation analysis is now mandatory under the SOLAS convention for ro-ro passenger ships constructed on or after July 1, 1999.

Lloyds Register can help you to identify potential problems with a ships layout at an early design stage. We can also help you to optimise or improve your existing ship evacuation strategy.

Historically, escape routes and evacuation from ships have been addressed by the prescriptive regulations set out in SOLAS. But while these address the specific structural design requirements of escape routes, no account is taken of people-to-people and people-to-environment interactions. Ship evacuation analysis allows these interactions to be predicted using computer simulation.

• Ship evacuation analysis enables ship operators to optimise their existing evacuation strategy, as well as embarkation and disembarkation procedures.
• It helps designers to evaluate passenger circulation under normal operating conditions this is of particular use for the optimisation of restaurants, retail and large public areas.
• Potential congestion areas in the vessels layout can be identified during the design stage.

How does Lloyd's Register help?

To deliver our ship evacuation services we use maritimeEXODUS, an award-winning program developed by international experts in the fields of human behaviour and evacuation simulation, which can simulate the interactions between people, structures and the environment. This program:

• enables the user to visualise the behaviour of passengers and crew throughout the evacuation process
• can be interfaced with fire and smoke spread models to estimate the exposure of passengers and crew to smoke, heat and gases, which may reduce their ability to evacuate safely
• accounts for age, gender, level of disability and other personal characteristics
• can simulate passenger evacuation from the embarkation deck into user-defined lifesaving appliances such as lifeboats, making allowances for entry delay and taking into account their possible performance in various sea states
• is capable of simulating the evacuation of passengers and crew wearing lifejackets from vessels with varying angles of heel and trim.

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