The Human Factors of Process Safety and Worker Empowerment in the Offshore Oil Industry: Proceedings of a Workshop
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a report that summarizes a workshop that took place in January 2018 that explored best practices and lessons learned from other high-risk industries to help address safety concerns in the offshore oil industry. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
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.
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This Summary Last Modified On: 9/14/2018