Offshore workers

Collaborate with industry in efforts that promote the public interests of offshore worker safety and environmental protection. 

December 2000 An offshore worker is killed in an accident at the production platform Oseberg 0st... 

In this article Furre made use of some of the same stylistic devices as Wathne. He illustrated his arguments with two stories in order to present the fates behind the statistics. He identified a male offshore worker who had been injured and stated his name and details about the injury, whereas the female worker is anonymous and referred to as a girl . 

The pilot project report, which was published in April 2001, included (1) a survey of various indicators of the development of the risk level, (2) interviews with some of the key actors in the industry, and (3) proposals for further work (Norwegian Petroleum Directorate 2001). These proposals included a questionnaire to be distributed to all employees working on offshore installations. By including interviews and questionnaires, the RNNP project legitimised the opinions of offshore workers and union representatives as valid and necessary input to an assessment of safety in the petroleum sector. 

The mother of a an offshore worker who lost his life offshore enrolled his fatal accident, the mass media and the reputation of Norsk Hydro, its managing director and the Norwegian petroleum industry. 

We should also recognise that the funetionalily of a given discourse depends on the context. The highly personal diseourse introdueed by the offshore worker s mother after the fatal aeeident, with its foeus on ethieal/judicial aspects, may have speeded up the proeess towards a revitalisation of the tripartite collaboration. In other contexts, similar discourses may contribute to scapegoating or create distrust. 

Adie, W., Caims, J., Macdiaimid, J., Ross, J., Watt, S., Taylor, C.L. and Osman, L.M. 2005. Safety culture and accident risk control Perceptions of professional divers and offshore workers. Safety Science, 43, 131 5. 

Because space is almost always severely limited offshore, workers and accommodation areas are generally close to equipment and other noise sources. Hence noise management and control often plays an important role in the design of a facility—particularly with regard to layout. 

Originally excluded from these requirements were workers in transport, trainee doctors, sea fishermen, police and armed forces and domestic servants. However, in a series of amendments, some of fhe exclusions have been eroded and the current position is that full protection is extended to rail workers (with certain derogations). Non-mobile workers in the sea, air and road transport sector are covered and mobile workers (such as HGV drivers) are covered in respect of paid holiday with health checks for night workers. The provisions do not extend to breaks and rest periods for mobile workers in this sector. Offshore workers are now covered but are classed as special case workers. 

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

Over the years, a number of studies concerning offshore workers situation awareness have been performed. Two such studies and their results are presented below, separately. 

Define situahon awareness and describe the offshore worker situation awareness concept. 

Describe at least one offshore worker situation awareness-related study and its results. 

Flin, R. et al.. Risk perception by offshore workers on UK oil and gas platforms. Safety Science, 22,1996,131-145. 

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. 

Environmental noise is not usually a concern. Most platforms are far enough from the shore that the noise that is generated will not affect the community, and general community noise will not affect the offshore workers. 

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