Performance Based Regulations

Other regulations apply in different offshore drilling areas in the United States and around the world. AH have had a profound effect on drilling fluid technology (169,170). Very few instances of water-base muds failing the mysid bioassay test exist in the 1990s. Operators and service companies have eliminated use of the mote toxic additives, reformulated old mud systems, and developed new ones to ensure acceptable environmental performance based on pertinent regulations. 

Recently, two significant developments have raised the profile of fire toxicity. The first is the development of the steady-state tube furnace (SSTF) (ISO TS 19700 2006), which has been shown to replicate the toxic product yields corresponding to the individual stages of fires. The second is the acceptance of performance-based fire design as an alternative to prescriptive fire regulations, so that architects can specify the components within a building based on a safe escape time, within which toxic and irritant gas concentrations must not approach a lethal level (ISO 13571 2007). 

Workers who will use the project. Design of the project must include provision for worker safety. Since its inception in 1972, the OSHA regulations have moved from a standards based system to a performance based system. This gives the designers more leeway in the actual design, but puts a strong burden on them to make sure that the plant will be safe. Most of the required personnel safety issues are now a routine part of design and include consideration of ... 

A Bayesian Approach to Risk Informed Performance Based Regulation for Digital I C QA Programs... 

Yih, 2000) Yih, S, et. al.. The Applicability of Applying Risk Informed Performance Based Approach to Digital I C Regulation, NPIC HMIT 2000, Washington DC, Nov. 2000. 

An important benefit of the nonprescriptive/performance-based approach is that an industry can immediately capture what has been found by experience or test to work well—there is no need for the regulators to catch up with the latest technology. 

Recognition of these limitations has led to the development of what many are convinced is a better pathway to safety, namely a collaboration between government and industry which features co-regulation for the fulfilment of performance-based rules. Supporting this development are several additional factors ... 

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