Safety and environmental management system

Guidelines for Certification to ISO 9001 - Health, Safety and Environmental Management Systems (and BS7750 -Environmental Management Systems) in the Chemical Industry (1992)... 

Over 80 per cent of member sites now operate health, safety and environmental management systems. Self assessment against the Association s systems is now something all of our members carry out. A small number of sites also have these systems verified by external organisations our aim is to increase the level of external verification.34... 

The COS started with a focus on Gulf of Mexico SEMS (Safety and Environmental Management System) audits. Longer-term goals are to add activities such as determining the leading causes of incidents. 

The Safety and Environmental Management System (SEMS) requirements to do with offshore training are described and discussed in Table 7.1 (some formatting changes have been made). Additional information to do with offshore training is provided by the American Petroleum Institute (API) (2001). 

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. 

This approach is spelled out in the following statement from the Safety and Environmental Management Systems (SEMS) rule ... 

Transportation Research Board Special Report 309 Evaluating the Effectiveness of Offshore Safety and Environmental Management Systems, 2012. 

Will this redesign affect the process safety implementation and effectiveness of the facility process safety program or specifically any of its elements as follows not already covered in the Health, Safety, and Environmental Management System ... 

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. 

Federal Register. 2011a. Oil and Gas and Sulphur Operations in the Outer Continental Shelf—Revisions to Safety and Environmental Management Systems. Vol. 76, No. 178, Sept. 14, pp. 56683-56694. 

TRB. 2012. Special Report 309 Evaluating the Effectiveness of Offshore Safety and Environmental Management Systems. Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C. http //vww.trb.org/Publications/Blurbs/167249.aspx. 

The next section briefly discusses the relevant elements of the safety and environmental management system (SEMS) regulations for offshore oil and gas operations. 

Finding 5. Some of the safety and environmental management system (SEMS) requirements for the offshore oil and gas industry would be appropriate for offshore wind farm worker health and safety and could be adapted to regulations for offshore wind installations. However, the overall risk to the health and safety of workers and to the environment associated with an offshore oil and gas platform is greater than that associated with an offshore wind turbine. 

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. 

Occupational Safety Health Administration (OSHA) or the Safety and Environmental Management System (SEMS), rules do not require that companies submit an acmal report. Still, the management of those facilities needs internal reports to advise them on the progress that they are making. 

Role of Safety and Environmental Management Systems in Establishing a Culture of Safety... 

Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), 2012. The Human Factor, Process Safety and Culture. Patrick Hudson and John L. Thorogood (eds). Summit Paper, November 2012. Transportation Research Board, 2012. Evaluating the effectiveness of offshore safety and environmental management systems. Spec. Rep. 309, 2012. 

This chapter describes the Safety and Environmental Management Systems (SEMS) rule that applies to the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) of the United States. (The manner in which regulations are created and enforced for the United States offshore oil and gas industries is described in Chapter 4. The practical implementation of a SEMS program—including timing, cost, and schedule development—is discussed in... 

BOEMRE is incorporating by reference, and making mandatory, the American Petroleum Institute s Recommended Practice for Development of a Safety and Environmental Management Program for Offshore Operations and Facilities (API RP 75), Third Edition, May 2004, reaffirmed May 2008. This recommended practice, including its appendices, constitutes a complete Safety and Environmental Management System (SEMS) program. 

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