Passenger Vessel Safety Specialist

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Passenger Vessel Safety Specialist

• Paul Culver
• Seventh Coast Guard District

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Program Objectives

• Enable the industry and response stakeholders
• Processes and Procedures to prevent passenger
  vessel emergencies
• Mitigate and respond to a passenger vessel
  emergency using all available resources
• Applies to U.S. domestic passenger fleet and
  foreign flagged passenger vessels operating out
  of U.S. ports

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Program Activated

• Jan 31st 2003 Program officially Established
• 10 Passenger Vessel Safety Specialist hired
• Outreach
• Coordination
• 5 Program support personnel established

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Major Program Elements

• Incident Prevention.
• Headquarter program managers promote, establish,
  and maintain effective standards for all
  passenger vessels.
• Passenger and crew evacuations.
• Lifesaving, fire prevention and fire fighting.
• Vessel construction and inspection.
• Training and qualifications.
• Vessel security and movement control.

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Major Program Elements

• Incident Prevention through Passenger Vsl.
  Specialist.
• Work with the passenger vessel industry, other
  federal, state, and local stakeholders.
• Execute prevention programs in cooperation with
  our stakeholders.
• Promote risk-based decision-making throughout the
  industry.
• Conduct outreach, education, awareness, and
  training with our partners and stakeholders.

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Major Program Elements

• Incident Response, Preparedness and Mitigation.
• Develop realistic scenarios using
• risk based methodology.
• Strategies and tactics that can be applied to
  mitigate those risks.
• Roles and responsibilities in executing those
  strategies and tactics.
• Contingency plans include strategies and tactics
  and the risk based assessment to mitigate those
  risks.

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Major Program Elements

• Coordinate with the entire response community to
  garner consensus of contingency plans.
• Oversight and coordinating the Mass Rescue
  Operation exercise program.
• Work with field responders to ensure
  compatibility of contingency plans.
• Ensure periodic exercises of the contingency and
  emergency response strategies and tactics include
  all stakeholders.

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Where Are We Today?

• Established a working group to standardize a Mass
  Rescue Operation contingency plan that can be
  used as a working template for all stakeholders.
  May 2003
• Over 250 years of maritime experience with the
  Passenger Vessel Safety Specialist

• Outreaching with our stakeholders

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Where Are We Today? (Cont.)

• Work shop conducted to gain knowledge on applying
  Risk-Based Decision Making using passenger vessel
  concerns as basis. July 03
• Participants
• Passenger Vessel Association
• International Council of Cruise Lines
• Headquarter program managers
• Passenger Vessel Safety Specialists

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Outreach

• Developing a program to meet the objectives of
  the Workshop conducted in Jacksonville, Florida
  March 26-27, 2001.
• Interactions and information exchange
• Incident Command System a Key element to mitigate
  emergencies with multi resources responding.
• Training and exercising with our stakeholders.

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Outreach

• Interactions and information exchange
• Mass Rescue Plan Template developed.
• Meeting your needs through communication and
  liaison.
• Point of contact for lessons learned from
  exercises and incidents from our stakeholders.
• RBDM guide to improving the Safety of Passenger
  Vessel Operations (PVA CG handout/electronic).
• Hypothermia awareness and prevention, types of
  survival equip available, water conditions.

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Incident Command System

• Interactions and information exchange
• Organizational Functionality of Mass Rescue Plan
  reviewed and exercised.
• Lessons learned incorporated into plans.
• Salvage and Pollution functions addressed
• Bottom line It was felt in the workshop that
  stakeholders should have ICS awareness and
  training.

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Incident Command System (cont.)

• Interactions and information exchange
• Communications i.e. Command Post, Emergency
  Response Center, Incident Commander Minimize
  information overload and duplicity
• Expands and contracts as required
• Media relations and Liaison
• Effective span of control (supervisors not
  overwhelmed)

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Incident Command System (cont.)

• Liaison officer(s)
• In each incident, the passenger vessel operator
  and the US Coast Guard should consider and
  discuss sending liaison representatives to each
  others respective crisis action centers and/or
  command posts.

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Incident Command System (Cont.)

• This may involve Coast Guard Marine Safety
  Offices, and/or Rescue Coordination Centers, as
  well as the vessel operators home office crisis
  action center and local operations office. If a
  Unified Command is enacted, liaison may still be
  needed at other incident specific and agreed upon
  locations.

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Thank You

• Paul Culver
• Passenger Vessel Safety Specialist
• Seventh Coast Guard District, Miami
• Ph 305-415-6876
• Fax [phone]
• PCulver_at_D7.uscg.mil