IACS FSA General Cargo Ships - Preparatory.pdf

Date 2008-07-28 4 ANNEX I Formal Safety Assessment of General Cargo Ships – Preparatory Step Contents 1 Abstract 5 2 Introduction 6 3 General Cargo Ship and the Database 8 3.1 Investigation of database 11 3.2 Casualty reports 14 3.3 Ship-years 19 4 Statistical Analysis of General Cargo Ship Casualty 20 4.1 Severe accidents for period 01.01-1997 to 31.12.2006 per ship-year 20 4.2 Total losses per ship-year 23 4.3 Fatalities for period 1997-01-01 to 2006-12-31 per ship-year 26 4.4 Severe accidents per year built 31 4.5 Age distribution at time of severe accident 32 5 Occupational risk 33 6 Conclusion 38 7 References 40 8 Glossary 41 Date 2008-07-28 5 1 Abstract In this report the results of the evaluation of historical data for General Cargo Ships are summarised. This is a preparative step for a Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) for this ship type. The objectives of the analysis and evaluation are the determination of frequencies for different consequences of accidents and the identification of items that should be a focus of the subsequent analysis. The historical data used in the present analysis are taken from the databases for casualties and ship register provided by Lloyds Register FairPlay (LRFP) for ship sub-categories specified with different StatCode5v. The dataset is restricted to vessels which are classed as general cargo ship, with a gross tonnage greater than 499 and with a due or delivered date specified by LRFP later than 1981-12-31. In the final calculation of accident frequencies only IACS ships are considered, as these ships are considered representative for the world fleet, and due to indications of under-reporting of accidents for groups of ships that are not classified by an IACS society. Date 2008-07-28 6 2 Introduction The issue of general cargo ship safety was noted at IMO in 2006 in the submission by Russia (MSC 82/21/19, 2006). This submission highlights the dispa