Strengthening the Safety Culture of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry
TRB Special Report 321: Strengthening the Safety Culture of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry offers recommendations to industry and regulators to strengthen and sustain the safety culture of the offshore oil and gas industry.
A supplemental product titled Beyond Compliance provides an executive-level overview of the report findings, conclusions, and recommendations.
The committee that prepared the report addresses conceptual challenges in defining safety culture, and discusses the empirical support for the safety culture definition offered by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, the nine characteristics or elements of a robust safety culture, methods for assessing company safety culture, and barriers to improving safety culture in the offshore industry.
The committee’s report also identifies topics on which further research is needed with respect to assessing, improving, and sustaining safety culture. Download the
Report in Brief or the
TR News article for a summary of the report.
This Summary Last Modified On: 4/1/2020