Preliminary Information on the Office of Pipeline Safetys Actions to Strengthen Its Enforcement Program

By General Accounting Office

Book Id: WPLBN0000219600
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 0.1 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Preliminary Information on the Office of Pipeline Safetys Actions to Strengthen Its Enforcement Program
Author:	General Accounting Office
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Accountability in government, United States. General Accounting Office
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection
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Publisher:	United States General Accounting Office (Gao)


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Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection

Excerpt
Excerpt: The effectiveness of OPS?s enforcement strategy cannot be determined because the agency has not incorporated three key elements of effective program management-clear program goals, a well-defined strategy for achieving goals, and performance measures that are linked to program goals. (See below.) Without these key elements, the agency cannot determine whether recent and planned changes in its strategy will have the desired effects on pipeline safety. Over the past several years, OPS has focused primarily on other efforts-such as developing a new risk-based regulatory approach-that it believes will change the safety culture of the industry. OPS has also became more aggressive in enforcing its regulations and now plans to further strengthen the management of its enforcement program. In particular, OPS is developing an enforcement policy that will help define its enforcement strategy and has taken initial steps toward identifying new performance measures. However, OPS does not plan to finalize the policy until 2005 and has not adopted key practices for achieving successful performance measurement systems, such as linking measures to goals.