Safety Environmental Hazards Analysis (EHA) in warships

Resumen

This work presents Environmental Hazard Analysis (EHA) as an analysis technique for evaluating the adverse effects of a warship on the environment. The purpose is to ensure that the ship does not damage the environment during its life cycle, which includes design, development, test, manufacture, operation, and disposal. The EHA is performed at the same time as the ship design to appropriately influence design options to prevent decisions that may have an adverse impact on the environment. It is important to integrate into the contract specification all the necessary safety requirements, both legislative and design, that make it possible to ensure that throughout the ship’s life cycle we will continue to be environmentally friendly. Two closely linked sources of fundamental legislative requirements are the classification rules and international conventions. In order to guarantee a safe ship, compliance with both rules is necessary. Taking in account, legislative and safety performance requirements, resulting from the Environmental Hazard Analysis, both ship equipment under the analysis and equipment implemented in the design to prevent and/or mitigate hazards, are identified and studied in this work.