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907 Introduction to SEMS II
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What is SEMS

A Safety and Environmental Management System (SEMS) is a performance-based approach to integrating and managing offshore operations. The purpose of a SEMS is to enhance the safety and environmental performance of operations by reducing the frequency and severity of incidents.

BSEE conducts no-notice exercises with operators to evaluate safety plan execution.

This performance-based program, the cornerstone in BSEE's move toward a hybrid regulatory approach, is designed to help drive safety and environmental performance beyond attaining strict compliance to BSEE regulations.

SEMS incorporates the elements of American Petroleum Institute's API RP 75, to focus attention, resources, and initiatives on recognizing and managing all aspects of safety and health management and the underlying safety culture to promote continuous improvements in safety and environmental performance.

SEMS requires owners and operators to formulate policy and objectives concerning significant safety hazards and environmental impacts over which they have control and can be expected to have an influence.

Ultimately, a SEMS program is intended to:

  • focus attention on the role of human error and poor organization in accidents;
  • drive continuous improvement in the offshore industry's safety and environmental records;
  • encourage the use of performance-based operating practices; and
  • collaborate with industry in efforts that promote the public interests of offshore worker safety and environmental protection.

Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.

1-2. Ultimately, what does SEMS intend to do?