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INSIGHTS has also led to joint inspections and investigations, and acceptable audit plan and audit report. Taken together, environmental preparations. The combination of BSEE’s more companies are providing audit reports with deeper laser-like focus and the Coast Guard’s tremendous human insights into their management system challenges. We and material assets results in a coordinated regulatory en- have seen the SEMS of many companies move in the di- vironment that maximizes the probability of safe outcomes rection of SEMS maturation. But a SEMS is a process of on a daily basis. continuous improvement. When a company prepares its

SEMS thoughtfully, only promising what it can deliver,

Both BSEE and the Coast Guard hope to help foster and then actually delivers on the SEMS, we have reached a a more robust ‘culture of safety’ in offshore opera- point of signi