With the passage of new VIDA regulations, the United States Coast Guard is now tasked with inspecting for environmental compliance on commercial vessels. Our team was tasked with developing a series of job aids that the Coast Guard can use to make these inspections safer, faster, and more accurate than through normal training alone. We accomplished this through codifying the VIDA discharges, interviewing Coast Guard personnel, and gaining feedback on job aid drafts we created. Through our research, we determined a list of criteria that the Coast Guard can use when creating their job aids, both in their content and in their format. Using these criteria, we developed some recommendations on how the Coast Guard can create, implement, and adapt future job aids for environmental inspections.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Czuba, Dexter Aaron
• Moreira, Matthew Coreia
• Winslow, Samuel Jay

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-121219-155811

Keyword

• Science and Technology: Policy and Management

Advisor

• Vaz, Rick

Year

• 2019

Center

• Washington, DC Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• US Coast Guard

Date created

• 2019-12-12

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright