Coast Guard - AWO Safety Partnership Initiatives Completed or Underway

 National Quality Steering Committee

• Towing Vessel Crew Fatalities Quality Action Team (completed)

• Tank Barge Transfer Spills Quality Action Team (completed)

• Towing Vessel Boarding Program Quality Action Team (completed)

• Major and Medium Tank Barge Spills Quality Action Team (completed)

• Bridge Allision Work Group (completed) ( PDF)

• Towing Safety Working Group (completed)

• Quality Action Team on the Safe Management of Crew Travel Time (completed) ( PDF)

• Crew Endurance Management Working Group (in progress) 

• Towing Vessel Inspection Bridging and Implementation Team (In progress)

 Mid-America regional Quality Steering committee

• Mid-America RQSC Charter

• Pollution Prevention Regulations Study (completed)

• Inland towing Vessel Guide to Federal Oil Transfer Procedures (completed)

• river Crisis Action Plan (completed)

• Cooperative Towboat Examination Program (completed)

• Aids to Navigation Quality Action Team – Upper Mississippi, Illinois, and Missouri Rivers (completed)

• Aids to Navigation Quality Action Team – Ohio, Tennessee, Monongahela, Allegheny, Cumberland, and Tombigbee (completed)

• Barge Fleeting on the Mississippi River Quality Action Team (completed)

• Recommended Practices for Bunker Barges (completed)

• Regional Examination Center Consistency quality Action Team (completed)

• Barge Inspection Consistency Quality Action Team (completed)

• Downstreaming Quality Action Team (completed)

• Industry Orientation Modules Quality Action Team (completed)

• Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Aids to Navigation Quality Action Team (completed)

• Streamlined Inspection Process Quality Action Team (completed)

• Waterways Action Plan (completed)

• Eighth District Casualty Quality Action Team (in progress)

• Outreach, Education and Training Quality Action Team (in progress)

• Tracking CDC Barges without IRVMC Quality Action Team (in progress)

• Hurricane Preparedness Plan Quality Action Team (completed)

• Visibility Standards for Pilothouse Personnel Quality Action Team (completed)

• Industry Training and Orientation Program Quality Action Team (completed)

• Port Coordination Quality Action Team (in progress)

• Fatality and Casualty Data Analysis Quality Action Team (completed)

• Towing Industry Incident Reporting System Quality Action Team (completed)

• Vessel Safety Alerts: Lessons Learned Information Exchange (completed)

• Crew Alertness Quality Action Team (completed)

Other Initiatives

• Regional Risk Assessment of Petroleum Transportation on the Waters of the Northeast United States (completed)

*The Mid-America Regional Quality Steering Committee was created from the merger of the Midcontinent Region QSC and the Southern Region QSC in August 1998.