Within the last years at IMO/FP, the agenda item for enhancing the scenarios of advanced evacuation analysis has been put forward together with the inclusion of the obligation for cruise ships to pass such an analysis. Recent events also highlighted the importance to check the orderly evacuation capability of all passenger ships. Well before that, SAFEGUARD had adopted a proactive approach based on safety assessment looking back into the past events, quantitatively using databases and statistics, and qualitatively using accident reports and expertise. Within this approach we stressed important parameters that were not taken into account in the current IMO MSC/Circ. 1238 and that will improve safety if included in a new guideline. A set of possible improvements in the current scenarios have been investigated and implemented in software. Final recommendations to IMO are being submitted by the SAFEGUARD group to the next IMO/FP session.
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