3.5 Performance standards
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3.5 Performance standards

  3.5.1 The following performance standards, as illustrated in figure 3.5.3, should be complied with:

Calculated total evacuation time: 1.25 T + 2/3 (E + L) ≤ n (1)
  E + L ≤ 30 min (2)

  3.5.2 In performance standard (1):

  • .1 for ro-ro passenger ships, n = 60; and

  • .2 for passenger ships other than ro-ro passenger ships, n = 60 for ships with no more than three main vertical zones and n = 80 for ships with more than three main vertical zones.

  3.5.3 Performance standard (2) complies with SOLAS regulation III/21.1.4.

Parent topic: 3 Method of evaluation
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