Safety and Environmental Management Systems SEMS rule

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 ... 

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. 

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... 

The safety and environmental management systems (SEMS) rule for offshore... 

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). 

Shelf—Safety and Environmental Management Systems (SEMS). It is Subpart S of 30 CFR Part 250. One of the consequences of that accident was that the agency radically increased the scope and speed of implementation of the rule. 

The rule covers all oil and gas facilities on the OCS in US waters, and is based on the Safety and Environmental Management Program (SEMP) standard that was discussed in the Chapter 3 (The single letter change—from SEM P to SEM S —is significant.) SEMS is a system in which the parts link to one another. 

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