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Offshore Drilling Contractor Looks To ABS for ISM Certification
GlobalSantaFe Chairman, Bob Rose, and President and CEO, Sted Garber, along with other company officials, accepted the ISM Document of Compliance certificate from Robert Kramek, President of ABS Americas, in a ceremony held in Houston.
(L to R: Adrian Gray, Jon Marshall, Rick McClaine, Garber, Rose, Marion Woolie, Kramek, Charles Striedel, with Pat Fallwell and Dave Forsyth joining Kramek from ABS Americas.) |
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ecently, Houston-based GlobalSantaFe Corporation looked to ABS to provide the |
company’s first International Safety Management (ISM) certification for its shore-based facilities and self-propelled offshore rigs. They are one of the first in a growing number of offshore contractors and operators borrowing from the marine industry’s ‘safety culture’ to address the human component in the safe operation of facilities.
ISM certification is a requirement of the United Nations-led International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Safety of Life at Sea regulation, to become mandatory for all self-propelled offshore drilling vessels operating under member State flags effective 1 July 2002. Those operators, both marine and offshore, who have proactively embraced this type of certification as part of their business philosophy, have already seen tangible results. ISM compliant companies report a decrease in lost time incidents as well as a decline in insurance and operating costs due to implementing a full safety management system.
According to ABS Americas President Robert Kramek, the ISM certification is further evidence of GlobalSantaFe’s commitment to the safety of its people and the marine environment in which it operates. |
Kramek reports that the contractor has chosen to implement the ISM standards throughout its entire worldwide fleet of drilling rigs – going beyond what is required by IMO.
According to GlobalSantaFe Chairman Bob Rose, the six GlobalSantaFe drilling vessels that have met the ISM code are the Glomar Explorer, the Glomar C.R. Luigs, the Glomar Jack Ryan, the Glomar R.F. Bauer, the Glomar Celtic Sea, and the Glomar Grand Banks.
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