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4. Alternative Approaches to Safety Inspection
4. Alternative Approaches to Safety Inspection
Pages 45-50
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during annual inspections, and increased spot inspections; and · alternative 3; annual inspection of a sampling of facilities, and increased spot inspections. The other two alternative approaches are true alternatives, in that they involve fundamental departures from current practice.
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lithe immediate consequence of this alternative is to reduce the amount of time MMS inspectors spend onsite on production facilities to carry out the annual inspection and to compensate for the reduction with a program of more sophisticated safer analysis supporting more (and better targeted) spot inspections.2 The program contemplates also that steps would be taken to establish more clear-cut operator accountability for facility safety by requiring operators to .
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The efficiency of this activity would be enhanced by using a sampling program in which limited numbers of like devices would be tested based on the operator's past safety history, the test result data accumulated by the operator, and the number of such devices installed on the facility. A facility-specific sampling plan could be developed based on the operator's inspection records, which would allow moving from the present program that emphasizes monitoring of tests to a program emphasizing verification of the operator's inspection records.
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Alternative 3: Annual Inspection of a Sampling of Facilities, and Increased Spot Inspections With an adequate data base reflecting the safety history of individual facilities it would be possible to develop a sampling plan to conduct annual inspections only at selected facilities. The sampling plan would require data for ranking each facility on the basis of its safety history, the safety history of the operator, the location of the facility, and the safety history of like facilities.
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This inspection program alternative is similar to the program currently employed in the United Kingdom sector of the North Sea. One element of this alternative that would distinguish it from current practice is that several considerations (the large number of variations in local circumstances, the need to establish the private inspection organization's responsibilities with certainty, and the removal of MMS personnel from day-to-day activity on the platforms)
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Coast Guard, in which operators report the results of their annual inspections on a standardized form, with the Coast Guard reviewing these reports and verifying them with spot inspections. This alternative obviously would produce substantial savings in manpower and budgetary resources, some of which the MMS could utilize to conduct more spot inspections and needed in-depth safety analyses of OCS facilities and the safety programs of the individual operators.
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