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BSEE launches web-based dashboard for safety data
A new web-based dashboard is now
available to industry and the public as
part of the US Bureau of Safety and
Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and
Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
SafeOCS Reporting System.
The dashboard represents data col-
lected from 2018 to 2020 and over 11,900
consolidated, voluntarily reported
events, including incident reports, event
narratives, and contractor and operator
information. It allows operators to com-
pare their confidential submissions with
aggregated data from all participants to
better identify safety risks and address
them before an incident occurs.
Working with the BTS and other
industry collaborators, BSEE began the
SafeOCS program in August 2013 for con-
fidential reporting of safety data on the
OCS. The dashboard increases transpar-
ency and improves companies’ ability to
follow trends, improve inspection plan-
ning, and see meaningful relationships
in process safety and personal safety.
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BSEE/BTS SafeOCS
dashboard. bit.ly/3xsiuk6
US SEC looks to bolster cybersecurity risk management
The US Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) is proposing rules to
enhance and standardize disclosures
regarding cybersecurity risk manage-
ment, strategy, governance and cyberse-
curity incident reporting by public com-
panies. Specifically, the commission is look-
ing at amendments that require cur-
rent reporting about material cyberse-
curity incidents. The proposal would
also require periodic disclosures about
a company’s policies and procedures
to identify and manage cybersecurity
risks, management’s role in implement-
ing cybersecurity policies and proce-
dures, its board of directors’ cybersecu-
rity expertise (if any) and its oversight of
cybersecurity risk. It would also require
companies to provide updates about pre-
viously reported cybersecurity incidents
in their periodic reports.
In its release of the proposal in the
US Federal Register on 23 March, the
SEC said the rules would better inform
investors about a registrant’s risk man-
agement, strategy and governance, and
provide timely notification of material
cybersecurity incidents.
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the SEC’s proposal
for disclosures on
cybersecurity risk.
bit.ly/3jKKffT IADC supports House Natural Resources energy bills
On 30 March, the US House Natural
Resources Committee introduced six
bills that would bolster the US energy
sector and give regulatory certainty to
drilling contractors. Among many things,
these bills would address well-known oil
and gas permitting delays facing the US
Department of Interior, as well as end the
Biden Administration’s ban on federal
onshore and offshore oil and gas leasing.
IADC President Jason McFarland
issued the following statement: “At a time
in which the United States and nations
around the world are facing rampantly
growing energy scarcity and fuel prices,
46 these bills are textbook examples of the
type of legislation needed to support rig
owners and ramp up drilling.
“On behalf of IADC’s member compa-
nies and the hundreds of thousands of
workers they employ, I’d like to thank
Ranking Member (Bruce) Westerman and
Representatives (Garret) Graves, (Jerry)
Carl, (Blake) Moore, (Beth) Van Duyne,
(Yvette) Herrell and (Matt) Rosendale for
their continued support of good-sense
energy policy, and for recognizing the
urgent need to boost exploration, drilling
and production in the North American
market.” OSHA proposes changes
to regulations for recording
occupational hazards
The US Department of Labor’s
Occupational Safety
and Health
Administration (OSHA) has proposed
amendments to its occupational injury
and illness record-keeping regulation, 29
CFR 1904.41.
The current regulation requires certain
employers to electronically submit injury
and illness information – which they are
required to keep – to OSHA. The agency
uses these reports to identify and respond
to emerging hazards. It also makes aspects
of the information publicly available.
Under the proposed rule, not only would
companies have to report their annual
summary of work-related injuries and
illnesses, certain establishments in cer-
tain high-hazard industries would also
be required to electronically submit addi-
tional information from their Log of Work-
Related Injuries and Illnesses, as well as
their Injury and Illness Incident Report.
OSHA said in a statement that the pro-
posed rule would improve its ability “to
use its enforcement and compliance assis-
tance resources to identify workplaces
where workers are at high risk.” It also
believes the amendments would empower
workers by increasing transparency in the
workforce. The rule would:
• Require establishments with 100 or
more employees in certain high-haz-
ard industries to electronically submit
information from their OSHA Forms 300,
301 and 300A to OSHA once a year;
• Update the classification system used to
determine the list of industries covered by
the electronic submission requirement;
• Remove the current requirement for
establishments with 250 or more employ-
ees not in a designated industry to elec-
tronically submit information from their
Form 300A to OSHA annually; and
• Require establishments to include their
company name when making electron-
ic submissions to OSHA.
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about OSHA’s proposed
amendments. bit.ly/3rhGhiC
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