The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s (PHMSA) Office of
Hazardous Materials Enforcement (OHME) (herein PHMSA) is implementing a riskbased enforcement program to focus our resources in a manner that will allow us to prioritize whom we inspect/investigate, what avenues we explore with the regulated entity to bring about compliance, and how we review our business data. The primary goal of this strategy is to focus our resources on those companies posing the greatest risk to transportation safety and security.

As part of this strategy, PHMSA implements this innovative enterprise inspection/investigation program called Systems Integrity Safety Program (SISP). SISP serves as a new avenue to ensure full compliance. Rather than engaging in an adversarial process, PHMSA will provide in-depth analyses, observations, and cooperative follow-up investigations to identify the root causes of the entity’s safety problems. Through the agreement, SISP will encourage continuous improvement and quality assurance programs to ensure sustained compliance and improved safety performance. SISP is designed to achieve PHMSA’s goal of enhancing the safe transportation of hazardous materials while collaborating with our stakeholders to achieve compliance.