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8. Findings, Conclusions, Recommendations
8. Findings, Conclusions, Recommendations
Pages 80-83
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On the other hand, the OCSLA carries a broad mandate to promote safety of life and property and to protect the environment. The committee believes that by this measure the MMS effort is not totally successful, particularly in the light of greater public expectations regarding safety and environmental protection that have emerged since the OCSLA was amended in 1978.
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The present program incorporates no mechanism or analytical basis for systematically upgrading safety requirements for OCS operations. For example, the committee found no indications that the MMS analyzes data to identify safety trends, collects data consistently across operators and facilities that would permit such analyses, documents operator safety histories, or cross-references PINCs and incidents of non-compliance (INCs)
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Some of the inspector resources made available by witnessing fewer tests should be redirected toward increased spot inspections, instituted systematically on the basis on analysis of inspection results, operator safety histories, interviews with key operator personnel, and analysis of data to identify emerging safety problems and general safety trends. This alternative program would require the operators to perform and record in a prescribed format all the scheduled inspections themselves (both those specified by MMS and those in the operators' own facility inspection program)
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The position description, job assignments and reward structure for MMS inspectors should be modified to reflect the importance of uncovering and reporting safety risks. An important step is to extend the definition of a "mishap" to include near misses, i.e., drilling or production disruptions, and events that prompt the operator or an MMS inspector to shut down operations and require investigation of these less serious occurrences as well as events (accidents)
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