2. Passenger Vessel Safety Specialist Paul Culver Seventh Coast Guard District

4. 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

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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 : Bottom line : It was felt in the workshop that stakeholders should have ICS awareness and training.

15. 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)

16. 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 other’s respective crisis action centers and/or command posts.

17. Incident Command System (Cont.) –This may involve Coast Guard Marine Safety Offices, and/or Rescue Coordination Centers, as well as the vessel operator’s 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.

18. Thank You Paul Culver Passenger Vessel Safety Specialist Seventh Coast Guard District, Miami Ph: 305-415-6876 Fax: 305-415-6875 PCulver@D7.uscg.mil