Transportation Research Board Special Report 309
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Offshore Safety and Environmental Management Systems
Author | : United States. Committee on the Effectiveness of Safety and Environmental Management Systems for Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Operations |
Publisher | : Transportation Research Board National Research |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
This report recommends that the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) take a holistic approach to evaluating the effectiveness offshore oil and the Safety and Environmental Management Systems (SEMS) programs of gas industry operators. According to the report, this approach should, at a minimum, include inspections, audits by the operator and BSEE, key performance indicators, and a whistleblower program. SEMS is a safety management system (SMS) aimed at shifting from a completely prescriptive regulatory approach to one that is proactive, risk based, and goal oriented in an attempt to improve safety and reduce the likelihood that events similar to the April 2010 Macondo incident will reoccur. According to the committee that produced the report, it is not possible for a regulator to create a culture of safety in an organization by inspection or audit; that culture needs to come from within the organization. To be successful, the tenets of SEMS must be fully acknowledged and accepted by workers, motivated from the top, and supported throughout the organization and must drive worker actions. The report also notes that BSEE can encourage and aid industry in development of a culture of safety by the way it measures and enforces SEMS. The committee believes BSEE should seize this opportunity to make a step change in safety culture by adopting a goal based holistic approach to evaluating the effectiveness of SEMS programs. In recommending a holistic approach to evaluating the effectiveness of SEMS programs, the report explores in detail the role of SEMS in helping to develop a culture of safety, highlights the pros and cons of various methods of assessing the effectiveness of a SEMS program, and investigates existing approaches for assessing the SMS programs of various U.S. and international regulatory agencies whose safety mandates are similar to that of BSEE.
Special Report - Highway Research Board
Author | : National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1124 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Highway engineering |
ISBN | : |
Cooperative Research for Hazardous Materials Transportation
Author | : National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee for a Study of the Feasibility of a Hazardous Materials Transportation Cooperative Research Program |
Publisher | : Transportation Research Board |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Hazardous substances |
ISBN | : 0309094976 |
Curbing Gridlock
Author | : Transportation Research Board |
Publisher | : Transportation Research Board |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1999-02 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780309055048 |
Curbing Gridlock: Commissioned papers
Author | : National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee for Study on Urban Transportation Congestion Pricing |
Publisher | : Transportation Research Board |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780309055055 |
The Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration requested that the Transportation Research Board and the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education of the National Research Council conduct a study of congestion pricing for congestion management. To conduct this study, the National Research Council established the Committee for Study on Urban Transportation Congestion Pricing. The committee's deliberations were supplemented by liaison representatives from several groups concerned about the benefits and costs of congestion pricing. After a review of the literature, and drawing from its expertise, the committee commissioned papers on a variety of topics. Volume 1 contains the committee's overview of the material contained in the commissioned papers, its conclusions, and its recommendations regarding the potential of congestion pricing, the need for evaluation of early demonstrations, and other research needs. Volume 2 provides a rich array of information about individual case studies from around the nation and thoughtful analyses by individual scholars about many of the critical issues surrounding congestion pricing., as revised by their authors after the symposium.
Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual
Author | : Transit Cooperative Research Program |
Publisher | : Transportation Research Board |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0309087767 |
Accompanying CD-ROM contains full text of the manual, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and a library of related documents.
Publications - Transportation Research Board
Author | : National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
Tires and Passenger Vehicle Fuel Economy
Author | : |
Publisher | : Transportation Research Board |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 0309094216 |