Offshore Worker Situation Awareness Concept, Studies, and Their Results

3 Offshore Worker Situation Awareness Concept, Studies, and Their Results 

Past experiences over the years clearly indicate that there is a definite need for maintaining the situation awareness of workers at a high level for insuring the safety of their operations in many industrial sectors. As per Reference 5, situation awareness may be expressed as the perception of the elements in the environment within the framework of a volume of time and space, the comprehension of their proper meanings, and the projection of their status in the near future. The following are the main elements of situation awareness [5]  

Comprehension involves combination, interpretation, storage, and retention of incoming information to form a picture of the current situation or condition whereby the events /objectives significance is understood. Finally, projection is the result of perception and comprehension, and it is concerned with predicting possible future events/states. 

Team situation awareness This is concerned with teamwork, as the successful accomplishment of a specified task (e.g., a drilling task in the offshore oil and gas industry) is completely dependent upon all the crew members collectively working together. Therefore, it is absolutely essential for all crew members to have a clear mutual understanding of the situation under consideration. 

More clearly and in short, it may simply be stated that all involved members of the crew must have a situation awareness (this shared awareness is known as team situation awareness) [3,5]. 

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