The proposal was rejected by the CSB by a 2-1 vote:
The public comments received on the draft report are available here:
https://app.box.com/s/2mrdm6v7kb9dj2slv5rk
Among the interesting comments is one from the United Steelworks Local 5:
"We understand that the 'Safety Case' approach is not perfect, nor will it be an easy transition, but we do feel that given the FULL support and buy-in of the State Regulators, The Industry, and the Workers this system puts us in a better position to operate the refineries safer."
And the CSB's responses to the comments are here:
Also available from the CSB web site is a page called "Working Papers on the Safety Case Regulatory Model and its Attributes": http://goo.gl/FPQB2P
Michael Holloway
(Speaking for myself, not NASA)
On 1/30/14 8:50 AM, Martyn Thomas wrote:
> I'm a non-exec Director at the UK's Health and Safety Laboratory
> (www.hsl.gov.uk). We carry out the basic research that underpins the UK's
> regulation of occupational health and safety, ranging from reducing
> accidents on construction sites and improving the tethering of loads on
> lorries, through to reproducing and analysing major explosions (such as
> Buncefield - http://www.buncefieldinvestigation.gov.uk/) and
> destruction-testing the physical integrity of tankers and rolling-stock.
>
> We also undertake commercial work that uses our unusual experimental and
> analysis capabilities and very strong science base.
>
> The UK is unusual in having a goal-based, safety-case regulatory regime and
> a regulator (HSE) with its own expert research establishment (HSL). We are
> getting an increasing number of approaches from Governments in the Far and
> Middle East who see the UK's good performance in occupational Health and
> Safety and who want to investigate setting up similar goal-based regulation.
>
> Maybe there is something in the HSE/HSL approach that the US chemical
> industry could benefit from.
>
> Regards
>
> Martyn
> Martyn Thomas CBE FREng
>
>
>
>
> On 29/01/2014 22:05, Peter Bernard Ladkin wrote:
>> A worthy opinion piece from the Chair of the US Chemical Safety Board. Note his suggestion that identifying hazards and mitigation is just well-established best practice. I can say from experience that it is not yet in Europe in all industries with safety aspects, even though he holds Europe up as having a factor of three fewer chemical accidents as the US.
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