IMO INF Paper Summary - The SAFEGUARD enhanced scenarios and recommendations to IMO to update MSC Circ 1238

This paper details the work undertaken as part of the EU FP7 project SAFEGUARD to develop representative scenarios. It is recommended that the scenarios relating to fire, heel and trim are considered to replace the current secondary cases. A comprehensive list of possible scenarios relevant to the operation of the ship is also considered. Finally it is recommended that the congestion criteria is based on the maximum allowable evacuation time and becomes a pass/fail criterion.