Safety Alert
Safety Alert 192 - Water Survival Craft
Safety Alert 192 - Water Survival Craft
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 192
- Emergency ResponseEvacuation, Escape and Rescue
- Human factors
- Lifeboat
- Human-centred design
- Offshore installation
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Summary
This revised alert describes an offshore operator’s study finding that survival-craft design assumptions did not match the average size of its Gulf of Mexico workers. Field trials confirmed seating limitations. The operator reconfigured some seating and reduced selected craft capacities; a corresponding examination of liferafts found no similar problem.
Classifications: Human factors; human performance; ergonomics.
Classifications: Lifeboat; survival craft.
Classifications: Human-centred design.
Classifications: Offshore installation; offshore platform; offshore rig.
BSEE Safety Alert 192. Themes: emergency response, evacuation, escape and rescue.