6 Detailed Assessment of Critical Systems
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6 Detailed Assessment of Critical Systems

  6.1 When performing a detailed assessment of critical systems, additional information may be necessary. The ship's description, described in section 3, should be supplemented, for each identified critical system, with the following, as applicable:

  • .1 details of pipes, cables or other devices connecting the components of the critical system, or connecting different critical systems including their location within the affected area;

  • .2 details of any manual action providing the required ship systems' functionality (see also paragraph 5.2.3); and

  • .3 details of any operational solution forming part of the design criteria.

  6.2 Where acceptable to the Administration, a quantitative analysis can be carried out as a part of the detailed assessment of all critical systems. As an example, the following may be performed:

  • .1 quantitative analysis of fire risk within a space, supplemented by fire engineering analysis and/or fire testing where necessary (e.g., to assess consequences of a fire casualty on a system or system component);

  • .2 Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) of a system or system component analyses in accordance with standard IEC 60812, Analysis techniques for system reliability – Procedure for failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) or resolution MSC.36(63), annex 4 (Procedures for Failure Mode and Effects Analysis), would be acceptable; and

  • .3 detailed analysis of possibility of flooding of internal watertight compartments and of consequences of flooding on system components, given the location of the compartment and arrangement of piping within the compartment.


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