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Antão, P. e Guedes Soares, C. (2005) A, “Analysis of Accident Scenarios of RoPax Vessels”, dvances in Safety and Reliability, Kolowrocki, K. (Eds.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, pp. 75-83
The RoPax ships, combining the Ro-ro cargo capabilities with the transport of passengers is a relatively new concept that has proved popular in the Mediterranean region and is becoming more widespread in Northern Europe. Due to its design characteristics and amount of passengers, although less than a regular passenger liner, accidents with a RoPax would have far reaching consequences both economical as for human life. The objective of this paper is to identify hazards relating to casualties of RoPax vessels. The terminal casualty events chosen are related to accident and incident statistics for this type of vessel. This paper focuses, then, on the identification of the basic events that can lead to an accident and the performance requirements. The hazard identification is carried out as the first step of a Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) using Fault Tree Analysis (FTA). Recommendations in this study are therefore meant as recommendations to the later steps of FSA rather than as final recommendations for decision making (Step 5 of FSA). These recommendations will be focus on the possible design shortcomings identified during the analysis by fault trees throughout cut sets.
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