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Safety assessment is an important part of maritime safety analysis and management as it can provide decision support to safety-based operations. In this chapter, we first review fire and explosion safety related regulations and assessment approaches, and then present a hierarchical assessment framework for evaluating safety against fire and explosion hazards in container line supply chain (CLSC).Main criteria and factors influencing fire and explosion safety on containerships are investigated, and a safety modeling and synthesis method using the Evidential Reasoning (ER) approach is briefly discussed. The outcomes generated by the proposed safety assessment method are highly consistent with “goal-setting” safety regulations.
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This work forms part of the project supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council under Grant No.: EP/F024606/1.
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Chen, Yw., Xu, DL., Yang, JB., Tang, D. (2013). Fire and Explosion Safety Assessment in Container Line Supply Chain. In: Vitoriano, B., Montero, J., Ruan, D. (eds) Decision Aid Models for Disaster Management and Emergencies. Atlantis Computational Intelligence Systems, vol 7. Atlantis Press, Paris. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-91216-74-9_13
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