Definition(s)
Life-Safety Category
classification system for identifying the applicable level of life-safety for a platform.
Source: ISO 19900:2013, Petroleum and natural gas industries – General requirements for offshore structures. Global Standards
Life-Safety Category
Classification system for identifying the applicable level of life-safety of personnel on a jack-up.
NOTE 1 Categories for life-safety are the following (see 5.5.2):
– S1: manned non-evacuated;
– S2: manned evacuated;
– S3: unmanned.
NOTE 2 Adapted from ISO 19902:2007, definition 3.27.
Source: ISO 19905-1:202, Petroleum and natural gas industries – Site-specific assessment of mobile offshore units – Part 1: Jack-ups. Global Standards