SEMS: In 2010, in response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, safety and environmental program (SEMP) was made a legal requirement. The rule is known as the safety and environmental management system (SEMS). This chapter describes this new rule that applies to the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) of the USA.
The development of safety systems is largely driven by lessons learned from incidents particularly catastrophic events. This ebook provides an overview of some of the incidents that led to the development of new offshore safety standards and techniques.
BSEE (the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement) does not provide detailed guidance as to how a SEMS program is to be implemented because the standard is fundamentally non-prescriptive. Each company and facility will need to develop a SEMS compliance plan that addresses their own needs and circumstances. Some thoughts as to how this can be done are presented in this ebook.
A safety case is a documented body of evidence that provides a demonstrable and valid argument that a system is adequately safe for a given application and environment over its lifetime.
Once the facility description is finalized and guidance for allowable risk is provided, a Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) can commence. (A Formal Safety Assessment is part of the development of a Safety Case.)
This ebook provides an overview of the offshore oil and gas industry. Covered are the types of operation, the history of safety in the industry and the organization of an offshore facility.
This ebook describes the topic of firefighting in the process industries. Included are fire protection, firewater systems and firefighting media.
The purpose of an inspection program is assure management that the facility’s equipment and instrumentation can be operated safely and reliably, and that corrective action to identify problems and to take corrective actions when such problems do occur. The inspection program should include the following management features.
Piping is at the heart of any process facility and generally makes up a large fraction of the overall capital cost. This ebook describes the design, operation and maintenance of piping in energy and process facilities.
This ebook to do with Process Plant Security has its roots in the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. On September 25th, just days after the 9/11 attacks, the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote,
The World Trade Center is not the place where our intelligence agencies failed. It is the place where our imaginations failed.
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