Designing a Human Factors Investigation Tool to Improve the Quality of Safety Reporting

2001 ◽  
Vol 45 (20) ◽  
pp. 1519-1523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael Gordon ◽  
Rhona Flin ◽  
Kathryn Mearns
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Error Recovery ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
Safety Reporting ◽  
Offshore Oil Industry ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Organisational Factors ◽  
Offshore Oil

Engineers in the UK offshore oil industry endeavour to analyse the causes of accidents with regard to the human and organisational factors. However, their expertise tends to lie in the analysis of the technical failures. In an attempt to improve the investigation of the human factors causes of accidents, a human factors investigation system was developed for the UK Health and Safety Executive and five oil companies. The development and evaluation of two previous reporting systems provides the background to this current study, where both systems were found to increase the quantity of human factors information collected. The Human Factors Investigation Tool (HFIT) improves on these two systems, where it collects four types of human factors information including (i) the observable errors occurring immediately prior to the incident, (ii) the error recovery process, (iii) the information processing stage at which the error occurred and (iv) the underlying causes.

Nimrod XV230—reflections on leadership, culture and priorities

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 374
Author(s):  
Martin Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Leadership Culture ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Organisational Factors ◽  
Independent Inquiry

On 2 September 2006 a reconnaissance aircraft Royal Air Force Nimrod XV230 suffered a catastrophic mid-air fire on a mission over Afghanistan, leading to the total loss of the aircraft and the death of all 14 service personnel. This paper summarises key issues from an independent inquiry and challenges the oil and gas industry to reflect on these. The author, a Chartered specialist in human and organisational factors, contributed to The Nimrod Review as a Specialist Inspector with the UK Health and Safety Executive.

Assessing the Human Factors Causes of Accidents in the Offshore Oil Industry

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael P.E. Gordon ◽  
Rhona H. Flin ◽  
Kathryn Mearns ◽  
Mark T. Fleming
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Offshore Oil Industry ◽  
Offshore Oil

Corporate and Worker Photographs of the Offshore Oil Industry: The Case of the Ocean Ranger

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-177
Author(s):  
Fiona Polack
Keyword(s):  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Hiring Practices ◽  
The Public ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
Massive Scale ◽  
Oil Workers ◽  
Offshore Oil Industry ◽  
Offshore Oil ◽  
Apparent Ability

Images of hydrocarbon extraction at sea remain strikingly circumscribed. The most extensively circulated are either the work of professional industrial photographers employed by oil companies to take carefully vetted promotional shots, or of news photographers commissioned to document catastrophes. Corporate-sponsored photography enforces the massive scale of offshore rigs, their technological sophistication, and apparent ability to withstand the vicissitudes of the ocean; it also tends to imply that companies adhere to strict safety regimens, and equal opportunity hiring practices. Photographs created by offshore oil workers are not widely circulated in the public domain. However, three collections of images recently donated to Newfoundland and Labrador’s provincial archives offer new viewpoints on the oil industry. Lance Butler, David Boutcher, and Lloyd Major were all employed on the Ocean Ranger platform, which capsized off the coast of Newfoundland in 1982 with the loss of 84 lives–including Boutcher’s. The men’s images resituate, expand upon, and on occasions challenge tropes that predominate in corporate photography; the striking arrangement of David Boutcher’s snapshots in album format by his mother is also salutary. This essay argues for the necessity of “onshoring” the offshore, and claims that workers’ photographs can potentially help us do so through a variety of means.

Routine Deaths: Fatal Accidents in the Oil Industry

1986 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Wright
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Formal Organization ◽  
Industrial Accidents ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Offshore Industry ◽  
Offshore Oil Industry ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Offshore Oil

This paper is a study in the relatively neglected field of the Sociology of Accidents and is concerned with fatalities in the UK Offshore Oil Industry. The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate the social and organizational causes of these accidents. Common sense and expert opinion both present industrial accidents as products of extra organizational abnormality but evidence from this research locates the causes of accidents in work organization and dependence on bureaucratic rationality. In particular it is shown that the hazardous situations in which the accidents occurred were themselves largely the products of two aspects of the formal organization of work, the ‘speed-up’ and the practice of ‘sub-contracting’. It is demonstrated that the common sense equation of the ‘normal’ and the ‘routine’ inhibited recognition of the organization causes of these accidents. Finally it is argued that, since there is little support for the view that the accident were produced by unique working conditions in the offshore industry, it is therefore likely that the causes of accidents in this industry will be found to exist in other industries.

Policy interventions in health and safety: What works and when--Evidence from the UK

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hollis ◽  
Stavroula Leka ◽  
Aditya Jain ◽  
Nicholas J. A. Andreou ◽  
Gerard Zwetsloot
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
What Works ◽  
The Uk
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