Offshore Accident-Related Causes

A study of the accident reporting forms used by 25 offshore companies in the United Kingdom reported that there were a large number of immediate causes for the occurrence of accidents [8]. Most of these immediate causes were as follows [3,8] [Pg.85]

Use of defective equipment Equipment used improperly Proper equipment not used Adjusted equipment in operation Serviced equipment in operation Operating without proper authority Work carried out on live or unsafe equipment Wrong speed Improper loading/lifting Workers under the influence of alcohol/drugs Lack of attention/forgetfulness Failure to warn/secure Safety device/equipment made inoperable [Pg.85]

Organization Its subelements were poor safety plan, company policy, poor procedures, competence standards, working hour policies, adequacies of systems, poor staffing and resources, and safety systems. [Pg.85]

Categories of underlying causes for the occurrence of offshore accidents. [Pg.85]

Task Its subelements were inappropriate matching of individual to job task, failure in communication, inadequate or no job description, poor equipment selection, conflicting goals, inadequate work planning, time problems, and confusing directions. [Pg.86]

Offshore Industry Accident Reporting Approach and Offshore Accident-Related Causes... [Pg.84]

Over the years, many accidents have occurred in the offshore oil and gas industrial sector due to human-related causes. As per WOAD database, the distribution of accidents per type of human-related causes is as follows [3] ... [Pg.140]

Chapter 5 is devoted to safety in offshore oil and gas industry. Some of the topics covered in this chapter are offshore industrial sector risk picture, offshore worker situation awareness concept, offshore industry accident reporting approach, and offshore industry accidents case studies. Chapter 6 is devoted to case studies of oil tanker spill-related accidents, oil tanker spill analysis, and oil spill causes. Chapter 7 presents various important aspects of human factors contribution to accidents in the oil and gas industry and fatalities in the industry. Some of the topics covered in this chapter are human factors that affect safety in general, categorization of accident-related human factors in the industrial sector, categories of human factors accident causation in the oil industry, and recommendations to reduce fatal oil and gas industry incidents. Chapter 8 is devoted to case studies of maintenance influence on major accidents in the oil and gas industry and safety-instrumented systems and their spurious activation in the oil and gas industry. [Pg.221]

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