System and method for locating personnel at muster station on offshore unit

A programmable storage device having program instructions stored thereon to cause a programmable control device when in operation to:

• associate, a plurality of wireless transmitters with the crew members, each of the wireless transmitters configured to transmit a wireless signal associated in a database with one of the crew members;
• associate a plurality of wireless receivers arranged in a mapped layout of at least a portion of the offshore unit, the mapped layout at least including one muster area of the offshore unit, each wireless receiver of the plurality of wireless receivers configured to receive wireless signals transmitted by one or more wireless transmitters of the plurality of wireless transmitters and each connected in communication with at least one processing device of a network system;
• initiate an event requiring location of the crew members in the at least one muster area of the offshore unit;
• detect, in response to the initiated event, any of the wireless signals in the at least one muster area;
• determine a failure to detect at least one of the wireless signals of at least one of the wireless transmitters of the plurality of wireless transmitters in the at least one muster area;
• output, the determined failure;
• automatically determine a location of the at least one wireless transmitter of the plurality of wireless transmitters associated with the determined failure, wherein the location is on the offshore unit and outside of the at least one muster area;
• and
• automatically generate an output based on the automatic determination to produce a visual indication of the location of the at least one wireless transmitter.

A system for tracking crew members on an offshore unit, the system comprising:

• a plurality of portable wireless transmitters each configured to transmit a wireless signal;
• a plurality of stationary wireless receivers arranged in a mapped layout of at least a portion of the offshore unit, the mapped layout at least including at least one muster area of the offshore unit, each stationary wireless receiver of the plurality of stationary wireless receivers configured to receive wireless signals of the plurality of portable wireless transmitters;
• a database associating one or more stationary wireless receivers of the plurality of stationary wireless receivers with the at least one muster area and associating the crew members with the plurality of portable wireless transmitters;
• a communication interface in communication with the plurality of stationary wireless receivers;
• and
• at least one programmable control device in communication with the database and the communication interface, the at least one programmable control device configured to:
• initiate an event requiring the crew members to locate in the at least one muster area of the offshore unit;
• detect, in response to the initiated event, any portable wireless transmitter of the plurality of portable wireless transmitters in the at least one muster area;
• determine a failure to detect any of the portable wireless transmitters in the at least one muster area;
• output the determined failure;
• automatically determine a location of the at least one wireless transmitter of the plurality of wireless transmitters associated with the determined failure, wherein the location is on the offshore unit and outside of the at least one muster area;
• and
• automatically generate an output based on the automatic determination to produce a visual indication of the location of the at least one wireless transmitter.