Fire safety is currently dealt with through statutory means for established design solutions and through a performance-based approach for alternative design and arrangements not in line with prescriptive regulations.

The latter is today undertaken in a manner consistent with 'traditional' risk assessment approaches. Whilst this takes place at qualitative level in the first instance, quantitative analysis focuses thereafter on fire consequences (fire engineering) analysis for a limited number of representative scenarios.

SafetyatSea has developed expertise for dealing with quantitative fire risk analysis to support the development of Alternative Design & Arrangements for fire safety and to verify compliance with the SOLAS requirements in relation to fire casualty threshold.

Fire risk analysis model of a ship space

Further information

Luis Guarin (l.guarin@safety-at-sea.co.uk)