Safety Oversight Board

U.S. Department of the Interior Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Safety Oversight Board, Report to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, i September 2010 (hereinafter. Safety Oversight Board Report). U.S. Department of the Interior, The Secretary of the Interior, Secretarial Order No. 5298 (50 April 2010). 

Michael R. Bromwich, Director of the BOEMRE, Implementation Plan in Response to the Outer Continental Shelf Safety Oversight Board s September 1,2010 Report to the Secretary of the Interior, 4 September 2010. 

As recommended the BP Board of Directors established and funded an independent safety review panel in August 2005. This blue ribbon panel was chaired by former Secretary of State James A. Baker, 11. The mission was to review the BP s corporate safety culture, safety management systems, and corporate safety oversight at all five US North American refineries. The report, published in 2007, was officially named The Report of the BP US Refineries Independent Safety Review Panel, however it is commonly called the Baker Report. ... 

An Institutional Review Board (IRB) and an Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) must approve each gene therapy clinical trial before it can be carried out. An IRB is a committee of scientific and medical advisors and consumers that reviews all research within an institution. An IBC is a group that reviews and approves an institution s potentially hazardous research studies. Multiple levels of evaluation and oversight ensure that safety concerns are a top priority in the planning and carrying out of gene therapy research. 

In 1999, the Board of Commissions established an Oversight Task Force for the Accreditation Process Improvement (API) Initiative. The purpose is to oversee the continuous improvement in the accreditation process. The resulting changes are intended to enhance the evaluation of critical patient safety and patient care functions and to achieve an accreditation process that remains consultative and focused on performance improvement. A white paper was published outlining a future operational model that will continue to build and expand on technology, performance data, presurvey self-assessments, a fully automated interface with JCAHO, increased surveyor development, and a more continuous accreditation process. Instead of a once every 3 years site visit, two 18-month site visits would occur that evaluate select standards. In addition, since health care entities are so diverse, there is a desire to create a model that is more data driven, less predictable, and more customized to an individual organization. 

Oversee all US. human trials and development programs for investigational medical products to ensure safety of participants in clinical trials and provide oversight of the Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) that actually perform these functions for the FDA. 

The resolutions, which were filed by the AFL-CIO Reserve Fund, call on the board of directors at Marathon Oil, Valero, Tesoro, and ConocoPhillips to disclose the board s oversight of process safety management, staffing levels, and the inspection and maintenance of refineries and other equipment. A similar proposal was also filed at Sunoco but was withdrawn when company officials agreed to comply with the request. 

Timeline for Event Analysis. The determination of a sentinel event must be initiated within the first forty-eight hours after notification of the accident/event has taken place and the initial fact finding has commenced. The causal analysis needs to be completed as soon as possible, to preserve an accurate account of events, discover the multiple factors contributing to the accident, and decrease system vulnerabilities for other patients. Generally, the initial summary report to the professional executive council, the patient safety steering committee, the board of directors, and the quality oversight committee should be completed within thirty days, but not later than forty-five days after notification of the event. 

An urgent recommendation to the BP Group Executive Board of Directors was to convene an independent panel of experts to examine BP s corporate safety management systems, safety culture, and oversight of the North American refineries. BP accepted the recommendation and implemented a special safety review panel. 

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