Health Safety and Environmental Management Systems

• Other Authors: Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME)
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Arctic Council's Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment Working Group (PAME) 2013
• Subjects: Environmental management; Human health; Sea safety; Arctic Council; Arctic; EPPR; Greenland; Iceland; PAME
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11374/65

Note: Supporting documents for the workshop are available below the workshop report to the left. PAME held a Health Safety and Environmental Management Systems (HSEMS) Workshop in Keflavik, Iceland 10-12 June. The agenda of the workshop was coordinated with the related EPPR Recommended Practices for Prevention oil Pollution (RP3) workshop also held in Keflavik 11-12 June to facilitate the opportunity for oil and gas experts to attend and contribute to both workshops. The meeting was attended by 22 people and featured 10 invited presentations.Attendees included representatives from the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, PAME, EPPR, indigenous peoples organizations, national coast guards, environmental protection offshore oil and gas regulatory agencies, academia, and oil and gas associations. The HSE workshop began the 10th of June with presentations on topics such as Deepwater Horizon assessments and investigations, offshore drilling, and the national Health Safety and Environment (HSE) management systems currently in place in Norway, Greenland, United States and Canada and the HSE sections of the Arctic Council Offshore Oil and Gas Guidelines, 2009. During day two, the background and status of the EPPR RP3 project was presented along with the PAME HSEMS project.