%0 Book %A Transportation Research Board %T A Process for Setting, Managing, and Monitoring Environmental Windows for Dredging Projects: Special Report 262 %D 2002 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11367/a-process-for-setting-managing-and-monitoring-environmental-windows-for-dredging-projects %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11367/a-process-for-setting-managing-and-monitoring-environmental-windows-for-dredging-projects %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Environment and Environmental Studies %K Earth Sciences %P 96 %X TRB Special Report 262: A Process for Setting, Managing, and Monitoring Environmental Windows for Dredging Projects concludes that scientific information about risks to resources and technical options for reducing those risks was not being systematically incorporated into the dredging process. The process itself is complex and time-consuming because of the numerous federal and state agencies and interest groups involved. The committee recommended use of a broad-based decisionmaking process designed to engage stakeholders more effectively and to improve the scientific and technical basis for the decisions made. Environmental windows are periods in which regulators have determined that the adverse impacts associated with dredging of waterways and disposal of the dredged materials can be reduced below critical thresholds, and dredging is therefore permitted. Conversely, seasonal restrictions are applied—dredging and disposal activities are prohibited —when the perceived increase in potential harm to aquatic resources is above critical thresholds. Since passage of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, resource agencies have requested environmental restrictions on dredging with increasing frequency. Today, more than 80 percent of federal contract dredging is subject to some type of restriction. At the request of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, TRB and the National Academies' Ocean Studies Board convened a committee to address concerns about the decision-making process for setting environmental windows. Windows are intuitively simple means of reducing risk to biological resources from stressors generated during dredging and disposal activities, including entrainment of fish eggs and larvae, resuspension of contaminated sediments, habitat loss, and collisions with marine animals. The use of windows as a management tool, however, can have significant cost implications for both the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the local sponsors of dredging projects, delay project deadlines, and increase risk to dredging personnel by shifting projects to periods of potentially inclement weather and sea states.Special Report 262 Summary %0 Book %A Transportation Research Board %T Naval Engineering in the 21st Century: The Science and Technology Foundation for Future Naval Fleets -- Special Report 306 %D 2011 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13191/naval-engineering-in-the-21st-century-the-science-and-technology %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13191/naval-engineering-in-the-21st-century-the-science-and-technology %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K %K Engineering and Technology %P 194 %X TRB Special Report 306: Naval Engineering in the 21st Century: The Science and Technology Foundation for Future Naval Fleets examines the state of basic and applied research in the scientific fields that support naval engineering and explores whether Office of Naval Research (ONR) activities, under its National Naval Responsibility for Naval Engineering (NNR-NE) initiative, have been effective in sustaining these fields. The committee developed a series of conclusions and recommendations in five areas--the value of the NNR-NE, the state of science and technology supporting naval engineering, the wholeness of the NNR-NE research portfolio, opportunities for enhancement of research and education, and the effectiveness of the NNR-NE initiative. The report's recommendations are addressed to the administrators of the NNR-NE initiative and of ONR. %0 Book %A Transportation Research Board %A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine %T Environmental Performance of Tanker Designs in Collision and Grounding: Method for Comparision -- Special Report 259 %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10199/environmental-performance-of-tanker-designs-in-collision-and-grounding-method %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10199/environmental-performance-of-tanker-designs-in-collision-and-grounding-method %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Transportation and Infrastructure %P 154 %X TRB Special Report 259 - Environmental Performance of Tanker Designs in Collision and Grounding: Method for Comparison describes a modeling process for evaluating alternative designs. The process encompasses consideration of the structural deformations from collisions and grounding and the environmental consequences of spills of different sizes, and uses a riskbased approach for comparing designs.Since passage of the Oil Pollution Act (OPA) of 1990 and subsequent decisions of the International Maritime Organization, the world tanker fleet has been evolving to double-hulled designs to reduce the risk of accidental spills. A previous study by the Marine Board, now part of TRB, concluded that the double-hull design had been effective in reducing oil spills (Double-Hull Tanker Legislation: An Assessment of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, NRC 1998).OPA 1990 was passed because of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound. Although the world’s tanker owners have been shifting to double-hull designs, a variety of other hull designs have been proposed that might be as effective and less costly. The U.S. Coast Guard has not been willing to consider such alternatives, in part because of the wording of OPA 1990 and in part because of the difficulty of comparing complex designs. %0 Book %A Transportation Research Board %E Johnson, Peter %T Offshore Wind Energy Projects: Summary of a Workshop %D 2011 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13333/offshore-wind-energy-projects-summary-of-a-workshop %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13333/offshore-wind-energy-projects-summary-of-a-workshop %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Transportation and Infrastructure %P 30 %X TRB Conference Proceedings on the Web 4: Offshore Wind Energy Projects: Summary of a Workshop summarizes a March 2010 workshop held in Washington, D.C., that examined the processes use by the former Minerals Management Service (MMS) for selecting and managing certified verification agents (CVAs) and for identifying appropriate standards for assuring good engineering judgment and practice; for reviewing and approving designs, fabrications, and installations; and for determining acceptable qualifications and role for a CVA associated with nonhydrokinetic offshore renewable energy projects. %0 Book %A Transportation Research Board %A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine %T Marine Salvage Capabilities: Responding to Terrorist Attacks in U.S. Ports — Actions to Improve Readiness %D 2004 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11044/marine-salvage-capabilities-responding-to-terrorist-attacks-in-us-ports %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11044/marine-salvage-capabilities-responding-to-terrorist-attacks-in-us-ports %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Transportation and Infrastructure %P 38 %X TRB Conference Proceedings 30: Marine Salvage Capabilities: Responding to Terrorist Attacks in U.S. Ports—Actions to Improve Readiness is the report of the TRB Marine Board Workshop on Marine Salvage Response Capability held on August 5-6, 2003, in Washington, DC. The workshop addressed economic, legal, forensic, environmental, and human casualty issues related to salvage. The report contains a summary of workshop discussions and committee recommendations highlighting important topics and issues associated with marine salvage that warrant further, more detailed inquiry by the responsible federal agencies. %0 Book %A Transportation Research Board %A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine %T U.S. Marine Salvage Assets and Capabilities in a Maritime Disaster %D 2009 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/23057/us-marine-salvage-assets-and-capabilities-in-a-maritime-disaster %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/23057/us-marine-salvage-assets-and-capabilities-in-a-maritime-disaster %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Transportation and Infrastructure %P 81 %X TRB Conference Proceedings 45: U.S. Marine Salvage Assets and Capabilities in a Maritime Disaster is the proceedings of a September 2008 workshop that focused on a scenario involving an incident that shuts down the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The proceedings examine the threat and explore key issues relating to an efficient, effective, and coordinated U.S. salvage industry response to a worst-case marine casualty scenario. %0 Book %A Transportation Research Board %T Shipboard Automatic Identification System Displays: Meeting the Needs of Mariners -- Special Report 273 %D 2003 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10708/shipboard-automatic-identification-system-displays-meeting-the-needs-of-mariners %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10708/shipboard-automatic-identification-system-displays-meeting-the-needs-of-mariners %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K %P 211 %X TRB Special Report 273 - Shipboard Automatic Identification System Displays: Meeting the Needs of Mariners assesses the state of the art in Automatic Identification System (AIS) display technologies, evaluates current system designs and their capabilities, and reviews the relevant human factors aspects associated with operating these systems. View report summary as published in TR News 232 May-June 2004 %0 Book %A National Academy of Engineering %A National Research Council %T Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations: Options for Implementation %@ 978-0-309-29427-0 %D 2013 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18545/best-available-and-safest-technologies-for-offshore-oil-and-gas-operations %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18545/best-available-and-safest-technologies-for-offshore-oil-and-gas-operations %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Engineering and Technology %K Energy and Energy Conservation %P 82 %X Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations: Options for Implementation explores a range of options for improving the implementation of the U.S. Department of the Interior's congressional mandate to require the use of best available and safety technologies in offshore oil and gas operations. In the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, Congress directs the Secretary of the Interior to regulate oil and gas operations in federal waters. The act mandates that the Secretary "shall require, on all new drilling and production operations and, wherever practicable, on existing operations, the use of the best available and safest technologies which the Secretary determines to be economically feasible, wherever failure of equipment would have a significant effect on safety, health, or the environment, except where the Secretary determines that the incremental benefits are clearly insufficient to justify the incremental costs of utilizing such technologies." This report, which was requested by Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), also reviews options and issues that BSEE is already considering to improve implementation of the best available and safest technologies requirement. %0 Book %A Transportation Research Board %T Structural Integrity of Offshore Wind Turbines: Oversight of Design, Fabrication, and Installation - Special Report 305 %D 2011 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13159/structural-integrity-of-offshore-wind-turbines-oversight-of-design-fabrication %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13159/structural-integrity-of-offshore-wind-turbines-oversight-of-design-fabrication %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K %P 140 %X TRB Special Report 305: Structural Integrity of Offshore Wind Turbines: Oversight of Design, Fabrication, and Installation explores the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE) approach to overseeing the development and safe operation of wind turbines on the outer continental shelf, with a focus on structural safety. The committee that developed the report recommended that in order to facilitate the orderly development of offshore wind energy and support the stable economic development of this nascent industry, the United States needs a set of clear requirements that can accommodate future design development. The report recommends that BOEMRE develop a set of requirements that establish goals and objectives with regard to structural integrity, environmental performance, and energy generation. The committee found that the risks to human life and the environment associated with offshore wind farms are substantially lower than for other industries such as offshore oil and gas, because offshore wind farms are primarily unmanned and contain minimal quantities of hazardous substances. This finding implies that an approach with significantly less regulatory oversight may be taken for offshore wind farms. Under this approach, industry would be responsible for proposing sets of standards, guidelines, and recommended practices that meet the performance requirements established by BOEMRE. The domestic industry can build on standards, guidelines, and practices developed in Europe, where the offshore wind energy is further developed, but will have to fill gaps such as the need to address wave and wind loadings encountered in hurricanes. The report also includes findings and recommendations about the role that certified verification agents (third party evaluators) can play in reviewing packages of standards and project-specific proposals. %0 Book %T Controlling Hydrocarbon Emissions from Tank Vessel Loading %@ 978-0-309-08368-3 %D 1987 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1133/controlling-hydrocarbon-emissions-from-tank-vessel-loading %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1133/controlling-hydrocarbon-emissions-from-tank-vessel-loading %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Environment and Environmental Studies %P 264 %0 Book %A Transportation Research Board %A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine %E Hancock, Kathleen L. %T Conference Proceedings on the Web 22: Transforming the Marine Transportation System Through Multimodal Freight Analytics %D 2018 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25336/conference-proceedings-on-the-web-22-transforming-the-marine-transportation-system-through-multimodal-freight-analytics %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25336/conference-proceedings-on-the-web-22-transforming-the-marine-transportation-system-through-multimodal-freight-analytics %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Transportation and Infrastructure %P 108 %X TRB has released Transforming the Marine Transportation System Through Multimodal Freight Analysis: Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Marine Transportation System Research and Development Conference that summarizes the discussion about multimodal freight transportation that took place on June 19-21, 2018.The conference considered potential research to address issues associated with transforming the marine transportation system (MTS) and explored opportunities to harness robust multimodal freight transportation data and analytics. Sessions at the conference focused on multimodal freight operations, planning, and policy; challenges associated with the corresponding analytics; and using these analytics for strategic MTS planning. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop. %0 Book %T Ship Collisions with Bridges: The Nature of the Accidents, Their Prevention and Mitigation %D 1983 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27742/ship-collisions-with-bridges-the-nature-of-the-accidents-their %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27742/ship-collisions-with-bridges-the-nature-of-the-accidents-their %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %P 137 %0 Book %A Transportation Research Board %T Risk of Vessel Accidents and Spills in the Aleutian Islands: Designing a Comprehensive Risk Assessment - Special Report 293 %D 2009 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12443/risk-of-vessel-accidents-and-spills-in-the-aleutian-islands %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12443/risk-of-vessel-accidents-and-spills-in-the-aleutian-islands %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Environment and Environmental Studies %P 226 %X TRB Special Report 293, Risk of Vessel Accidents and Spills in the Aleutian Islands: Designing a Comprehensive Risk Assessment, provides guidance for a comprehensive risk assessment of vessel accidents and spills in the Aleutian Islands. The report examines data related to the risk of oil, chemical, and other hazardous cargo spills from vessel traffic through the Aleutian Islands and identifies key information needed to conduct a comprehensive risk assessment. %0 Book %A Transportation Research Board %T The Marine Transportation System and the Federal Role: Measuring Performance, Targeting Improvement -- Special Report 279 %D 2004 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10890/the-marine-transportation-system-and-the-federal-role-measuring-performance %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10890/the-marine-transportation-system-and-the-federal-role-measuring-performance %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Computers and Information Technology %K Engineering and Technology %P 196 %X TRB Special Report 279 - The Marine Transportation System and the Federal Role: Measuring Performance, Targeting Improvement calls upon the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to take the lead in assessing the performance of and improving the nation's entire marine transportation system. In particular, the report recommends that the DOT should begin immediately to develop reports on the condition, performance, and use of the marine transportation system and seek a mandate from Congress to produce such reports on a regular basis, as it already does for the nation's highway and transit systems. %0 Book %A Transportation Research Board %T Worker Health and Safety on Offshore Wind Farms - Special Report 310 %D 2013 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18327/worker-health-and-safety-on-offshore-wind-farms-special-report-310 %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18327/worker-health-and-safety-on-offshore-wind-farms-special-report-310 %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Industry and Labor %P 107 %X The United States holds a large amount of untapped wind energy, both land-based and offshore. The strongest and most consistent winds are either offshore or in rural areas, far from population centers that could benefit from the electricity produced. As of December 31, 2012, the United States had more than 60,000 megawatts of installed wind capacity—second only to China—all of it from land-based wind farms. Offshore wind development would supply energy to nearby population centers, especially on the East Coast. Yet the United States has no offshore turbines installed; many European nations have developed dozens of offshore wind farms over the past 15 years. Congress passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which authorized the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior (USDOI) to regulate renewable energy sources on the outer continental shelf (OCS). Initially, the Minerals Management Service (MMS) had responsibility for essential regulations and for implementing this new authority, in addition to regulating oil and gas development. In April 2010, MMS was reorganized (see Chapter 3), and previously coexisting functions were separated: resource development and energy management are now administered by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), and health, safety, and environmental enforcement for offshore oil and gas is now administered by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE). The regulation of renewable energy is an exception to this organizational structure. USDOI issued its final regulations in 30 CFR 585, which gave BOEM authority to regulate all renewable energy development activities on the OCS. The agency still needed to provide guidance in many areas of offshore wind development, including ensuring the health and safety of offshore wind workers. In August 2011, USDOI requested that the Marine Board of the National Research Council assess its approach for regulating the health and safety of wind farm workers on the OCS. Worker Health and Safety on Offshore Wind Farms reviews the following statements of task: - Identify unique risks to worker health and safety on wind farms, as compared with oil and gas operations on the OCS; - Identify any gaps or overlaps in jurisdictional authority; and - Evaluate the adequacy of existing regulations and recommend enhancements to regulations for worker health and safety on OCS wind farms. %0 Book %A Transportation Research Board %A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine %T Intermodal Marine Container Transportation: Impediments and Opportunities -- Special Report 236 %D 1992 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11404/intermodal-marine-container-transportation-impediments-and-opportunities-special-report-236 %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11404/intermodal-marine-container-transportation-impediments-and-opportunities-special-report-236 %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Transportation and Infrastructure %P 128 %X TRB Special Report 236 - Intermodal Marine Container Transportation: Impediments and Opportunities examines where and how government action might assist in overcoming impediments and fostering efficiency in intermodal marine container transportation, especially through technological or institutional innovation.The report analyzes 10 key issues on which government in the United States affects or can affect the intermodal marine container transportation industry. The issues are: ship procurement restrictions under the Operating Differential Subsidy (ODS) program; federally imposed ship-manning requirements; military cargo bidding policies; environmental policy conflicts and costs; overweight container trucks; customs clearance procedures; intermodal equipment interchange procedures; cargo liability and responsibility regulation; creation of a federal intermodal coordinating office; and collection and publication of container trade data. %0 Book %A Transportation Research Board %T Policy Options for Intermodal Freight Transportation: Special Report 252 %D 1998 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11414/policy-options-for-intermodal-freight-transportation-special-report-252 %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11414/policy-options-for-intermodal-freight-transportation-special-report-252 %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Transportation and Infrastructure %P 327 %X TRB Special Report 252 - Policy Options for Intermodal Freight Transportation recognizes that freight transportation is of critical importance to the United States and that intermodal freight transportation is one of the major technological and organizational trends affecting the performance of the sector. During the last two decades, the importance of freight efficiency to the nation's economy has become more apparent to federal policy makers and has emerged as an increasingly important element of laws and regulations related to surface transportation. In the Intermodal Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA), Congress stated: "It is the Policy of the United States to develop a National Intermodal Transportation System that is economically efficient and environmentally sound, provides the foundation for the Nation to compete in the global economy, and will move people and goods in an energy efficient manner." The term "intermodal" is usually interpreted as referring to places where the various modes connect for the purpose of transferring passengers or freight or to operations designed to move on more than one mode. ISTEA introduced provisions, carried over and extended in the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, that allowed taxes collected for the highway trust fund to be used for intermodal investments designed to facilitate more efficient connections between the modes. Highways and trucking are central to intermodalism because virtually all freight moves by truck at some point in its trip. Intermodal transfer points include any terminals where freight is transferred from one mode to another. Intermodal connections are critically important to freight movement. Massive seagoing vessels deliver containerized cargo to ports, where the containers are either trucked to rail yards for placement on trains or offloaded directly onto rail cars at the port terminal. Containerization has introduced extraordinary efficiencies into freight movement, but the connection points remain sources of friction and lost efficiency. The TRB committee that examined policy options for intermodal freight transportation concluded that public investment in freight facilities is complex. These types of facilities (rail yards, port terminals, and truck terminals) have usually been financed exclusively by the private sector. The committee concluded that introducing public funds into this mix could undermine the "user pays" principle that has been fundamental to highway finance, fuel interstate rivalries, and come to be demanded by private-sector firms as a substitute for formerly private investment. Appropriate federal and state roles in such projects are not yet well established in practice; hence there are uncertainties about how to proceed and a risk of wasted resources. Before federal and state funds are invested in such facilities, the investments should be clearly justified. Such justification might include, for example, that the investment would reduce negative externalities and increase positive externalities, or that it is necessary for national defense. In defining an appropriate public role, government agencies should apply standard analysis tools to estimate costs and benefits and winners and losers. The public role in financing major facilities should also receive close scrutiny to ensure that public benefits justify the expenditure of public funds and that users pay to the extent that they benefit. The location of benefits also matters: when benefits are primarily local rather than national, local or state governments are the appropriate sources of funding. %0 Book %A Transportation Research Board %A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine %T Landside Access to U.S. Ports: Special Report 238 %D 1993 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11403/landside-access-to-us-ports-special-report-238 %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11403/landside-access-to-us-ports-special-report-238 %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Transportation and Infrastructure %P 198 %X TRB Special Report 238 - Landside Access to U.S. Ports examines the nature of port access problems and appropriate strategies for responding to them. The report covers four broad subject areas that influence landside transportation access to ports: physical impediments, land use policies, regulatory constraints, and institutional issues. %0 Book %A Transportation Research Board %T TRB Special Report 309: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Offshore Safety and Environmental Management Systems %D 2012 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13434/trb-special-report-309-evaluating-the-effectiveness-of-offshore-safety-and-environmental-management-systems %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13434/trb-special-report-309-evaluating-the-effectiveness-of-offshore-safety-and-environmental-management-systems %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Transportation and Infrastructure %P 106 %X TRB Special Report 309: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Offshore Safety and Environmental Management Systems recommends that the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) take a holistic approach to evaluating the effectiveness offshore oil and gas industry operators' Safety and Environmental Management Systems (SEMS) programs. 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 workers' 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 SEMS' role 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. %0 Book %A Transportation Research Board %A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine %T Strengthening the Safety Culture of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry %D 2016 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/23524/strengthening-the-safety-culture-of-the-offshore-oil-and-gas-industry %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/23524/strengthening-the-safety-culture-of-the-offshore-oil-and-gas-industry %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Transportation and Infrastructure %P 240 %X TRB Special Report 321: Strengthening the Safety Culture of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry offers recommendations to industry and regulators to strengthen and sustain the safety culture of the offshore oil and gas industry. A supplemental product titled Beyond Compliance provides an executive-level overview of the report findings, conclusions, and recommendations.The committee that prepared the report addresses conceptual challenges in defining safety culture, and discusses the empirical support for the safety culture definition offered by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, the nine characteristics or elements of a robust safety culture, methods for assessing company safety culture, and barriers to improving safety culture in the offshore industry.The committee’s report also identifies topics on which further research is needed with respect to assessing, improving, and sustaining safety culture. Download the Report in Brief or the TR News article for a summary of the report.