Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement

Given this background, the API created the COS following Deepwater Horizon. The intent is that the center will supplement and complement formal regulations, and would have a relationship to Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the other agencies analogous to that between INPO and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

In December 2012, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement published a Draft Safety Culture Policy Statement (BSEE, 2012) with a request for public comments. This proposed policy is based on a Culture Policy Statement from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

PSSRs are an integral part of all process safety management (PSM) regulations. In the United States, the PSSR requirements from Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are very similar. Offshore facilities are regulated by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) in their Safety and Environmental Management Systems (SEMS) rule. They use the term PSR. 

Because contractor management is so crucial to safe and successfiil operations, all industries have extensive regulations and guidance on the topic. A discussion of the standards provided by OSHA and BSEE (Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement) is provided below. 

BSEE (Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement), 2012a. Draft Safety Cultiure Policy Statement. 

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) conducts safety inspections of offehore oil and gas platforms for the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and has recently implemented safety and environmental management system (SEMS) requirements for the oil and gas industry. 

This study was sponsored by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement of the U.S. Department of the Interior. 

BOEMRE Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (May 19,2010, to October 1,2011) BSEE Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (after... 

Figure 1.1 was first pubhshed by the United States Mineral Management Service (MMS)— the government agency responsible, at the time, for offshore safety regulation and enforcement. These responsibilities for the MMS are now handled by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement— BSEE. The chart provides data to do with the number of offshore safety incidents for the period 1996 to 2011. The trend is impressive in just 12 years the recordable injury rate declined from 3.39 to 0.75, a drop of around 80 percent. And the number of lost workdays dropped by a similar percentage. Moreover the trend is quite smooth and steady, showing that the results are not a fluke or one-time event. And these... 

In order to reduce the number and severity of major events companies need to develop and implement a Safety Management System, or SMS. The details of an SMS vary from company to company and agency to agency, but they all tend to have broadly the same structure and content. In the United States, the agency responsible for offshore safety, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), issued its Safety and Environmental Management System (SEMS) rule. The management elements of SEMS are shown in Table 1.2. 

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) does not provide detailed guidance as to how a SEMS program is to be implemented because the standard is fundamentally nonprescriptive. Each company and facility will need to develop a SEMS compliance plan that addresses their own needs and circumstances. Some thoughts as to how this can be done are presented in this chapter. 

Consultants ABS have carried out a detailed FMECA of blowout preventers Blowout preventer (BOP) failure mode and effect criticality analysis (FMECA) for the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Final Report, 2650788-DFMECA-3-D2, June 28, 2013. 

Also in 2010, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), part of the US Department of Interior, published the Final Rule for 30 CFR Part 250 Subpart S—Safety and Environmental Management Systems (Ref. US Federal Register, 75 FR 63610). The BSEE enforces safety and environmental protection on the 1.7 billion-acre US Outer Continental Shelf (affecting offshore oil and gas development). This Final Rule incorporates by reference, and makes mandatory, the American Petroleum Institute s Recommended Practice for Development of a Safety and Environmental Management Program for Offshore Operations and Facilities (API ILP 75),Third Edition, May 2004, reaffirmed May 2008.This recommended practice, including its appendices, constitutes a complete Safety and Environmental Management System (SEMS). 

OSHA collects data on injuries and fatalities and does some inspections, but generally undertakes no analysis of the causes of fires and explosions in the process industries. It rather determines if federal laws were violated and issues a fine. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) undertakes similar functions for US OCS petroleum operations. In fact, there is no national or international governmental data bank available where fire and explosion incidents from the entire petroleum, chemical, or related industries are logged and analyzed. 

A blast occurred at an offshore platform located at the West Delta Block 32, Platform E, about 17 miles off Grand Isle, LA. The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) issued 41 incidents of noncompliance (INC) resulting from its invest tion into the incident. 

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