| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 105 pages) : color illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction and themes of the workshop -- The Piper Alpha and the Deepwater Horizon -- Effective worker empowerment for offshore safety -- The roles of different stakeholders -- Barriers to effective worker empowerment -- Lessons from offshore operations in other regions -- Current systems for worker responses to unsafe conditions, worker interventions, and reporting -- Training for empowerment -- Important messages and potential next steps -- Appendixes |
| Summary |
"Since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout and oil spill, efforts to improve safety in the offshore oil industry have resulted in the adoption of new technological controls, increased promotion of safety culture, and the adoption of new data collection systems to improve both safety and performance. As an essential element of a positive safety culture, operators and regulators are increasingly integrating strategies that empower workers to participate in process safety decisions that reduce hazards and improve safety. While the human factors of personal safety have been widely studied and widely adopted in many high-risk industries, process safety - the application of engineering, design, and operative practices to address major hazard concerns - is less well understood from a human factors perspective, particularly in the offshore oil industry. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine organized a workshop in January 2018 to explore best practices and lessons learned from other high-risk, high-reliability industries for the benefit of the research community and of citizens, industry practitioners, decision makers, and officials addressing safety in the offshore oil industry. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (National Academies Press, viewed July 24, 2018) |
| Subject |
Offshore oil industry -- United States -- Safety measures -- Congresses
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Employee empowerment -- United States -- Congresses
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Offshore oil industry -- Safety regulations -- United States -- Congresses
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BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Employee empowerment
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Offshore oil industry -- Safety measures
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Offshore oil industry -- Safety regulations
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Gulf of Mexico
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kreidler, Heather, rapporteur.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Steering Committee on the Human Factors of Process Safety and Worker Empowerment in the Offshore Oil Industry: A Workshop, organizer
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Human Factors of Process Safety and Worker Empowerment in the Offshore Oil Industry (Workshop) (2018 : Houston, TX)
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| ISBN |
9780309473378 |
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0309473373 |
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