SEMS Audit Guidance / Toolkit

On November 30th we provided information at this blog site from the International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC) to do with their new edition of HSE Case Guidelines for Mobile Offshore Drilling Units.

IADC has also summarized the work that was done on the SEMS Toolkit.  They state,

IADC staff have been actively working with an Offshore Operators Committee (OOC) task force, in cooperation with the Center for Offshore Safety (COS), to develop readiness/implementation tools that operators and contractors may use in their efforts to comply with SEMS.

A list of the available documents is provided below.

• SEMS Tool – Audit Checklist (pdf, 681KB)

• SEMS Tool – Matrices of Regulatory Mandated Training for Drilling/ Marine/Production
  • Drilling (Excel, 44KB)
  • Production (Excel, 51KB)
  • Marine (Excel, 45KB)

• SEMS Tool – Knowledge and Skills Documentation Worksheet (Excel, 27KB)

• SEMS Tool – Operator-Contractor Agreement Letter Templates
  • Template 1 (Word, 33KB)
  • Template 2 (Word, 32KB)
  • Template 3 (Word, 34KB)

• SEMS Tool – Terms/Definitions – Clarification Document (pdf, 317KB)

• SEMS Tool – Compliance Readiness Worksheet
  • Cover Sheet and Instructions (pdf, 75KB)
  • Worksheet (Excel, 110KB)

• SEMS Tool – Powerpoint Presentations
  • SEMS Audit Protocol (Powerpoint, 132KB)
  • SEMS Compliance Readiness Worksheet (Powerpoint, 96KB)
  • SEMS Knowledge and Skills Documentation Worksheet (Powerpoint, 110KB)
  • SEMS Operator Contractor Agreement Letter Templates (Powerpoint, 785KB)
  • SEMS Orientation and SafeGulf (Powerpoint, 223KB)
  • SEMS Regulatory Mandated Training Matrices (Powerpoint, 284KB)
  • SEMS Terms Definitions Clarification Document (Powerpoint, 2,782KB)
  • SEMS Toolkit Disclaimer (Powerpoint, 97KB)

IADC HSE Case Guidelines

The International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC) has issued an updated edition of their “HSE Case Guidelines” for Mobile Offshore Drilling Units (there is a similar document for Land Drilling Units). It can be downloaded from www.iadc.org/iadc-hse/iadc-hse-case-guidelines/.

IADC states,

The Guidelines provide a framework for developing an integrated health, safety and environmental management system for use in reducing the risks associated with offshore and onshore drilling activities.

The Guidelines provide the worldwide drilling industry with a means of harmonizing global health, safety and environmental principles applicable to drilling units into a single methodology tailored to the drilling contractor community.  This framework will greatly assist regulatory bodies, drilling contractors, and oil and gas producers in achieving higher degrees of personnel safety and environmental protection worldwide.

SEMS PINCs

BSEE (Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement) has just published a web page called “Potential Incident of Noncompliance – PINC”. It’s at http://www.bsee.gov/Inspection-and-Enforcement/Inspection-Programs/Potential-Incident-of-Noncompliance—PINC.aspx. Please review what has been published and let us have your comments.

Topics covered are:

• Office PINC List
•  SEMS PINC List
•  Field PINC List:
• Renewable Energy PINCs
• Introduction
• PINC List Revision Records
• General PINCs
• Pollution PINCs
• Drilling PINCs
• Well-Completion PINCs
• Well-Workover PINCs
• Decommissioning PINCs
• Production PINCs
• Pipelines PINCs
• Measurements & Site Security PINCs
• Hydrogen Sulfide PINCs
• Crane PINCs
• Electrical PINCs
• Personal Safety (USCG) PINCs
• Appendices

Welcome to SEMS Success

Welcome to the blog SEMS Success where we provide fresh and timely informaiton to do with the Safety and Environmental Management Systems (SEMS) rule from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE).

Feel free to start a discussion by adding a comment, or to add information or news that you have come across.

Much of the SEMS information that we had previously posted at Sutton Technical Books will now be posted here and/or at www.sems.us.com.