Creating a fire safety management system for offshore facilities

Abstract

Fire safety management on offshore platforms has been a matter of major concern since the publication of the Cullen report into the Piper Alpha fire. In order to be able to achieve and maintain an acceptable level of fire risk it is desirable to consider the system as a “dynamic whole”. The intention in this research has been to construct a fire safety management system which is both efficacious and resilient. To this end a systemic approach to fire safety for an offshore platform has been pursued, employing the Viable System Model and the Failure Paradigm Method.

Citation

Beard, A.N. and Santos‐Reyes, J. (1999), "Creating a fire safety management system for offshore facilities", Facilities, Vol. 17 No. 9/10, pp. 352-362. https://doi.org/10.1108/02632779910278773