Psychosocial aspects of stress, health and safety on North Sea installations

The importance of a multidimensional and temporal design in research on leadership and workplace safety

“…Høivik, Tharaldsen, Baste, & Moen, 2009;Parkes, 1998). In addition, working on offshore installations involves a range of hazards such as extreme weather conditions, risk of accidents, as well as risk of fires, explosions, and blowouts (Hellesøy, Moss, & Gogstad, 1985;Rundmo, 1992).…”

‘Living Two Lives’

“…In earlier work, Clark and Taylor (1988) reported that 93% of the 200 offshore spouses in their study had children, including 41% with pre-school children. The average age of the UK North Sea workforce has increased over the past decade (Parkes, 1998), with some reduction in the proportion of offshore families with children at home, but more than half of a large sample of offshore workers surveyed in 1995Á/1996 had children less than 18 years old (Parkes & Clark, 1997). A further consequence of the increased age of the offshore workforce is that a higher proportion of the families concerned are likely to care for elderly relatives, an issue not considered in existing literature on offshore families.…”

Shift work and age as interactive predictors of body mass index among offshore workers

“…Moreover, in the offshore work setting, all personnel are required to meet rigorous standards of physical and mental health (41). Thus offshore workers can be regarded as an exceptionally "healthy worker" group in which health status is more favorable than in the general working population (42) and is independent of job type and shift pattern. The possibility that the present findings are attributable to differences in initial health status is therefore less likely than in studies of onshore occupations which impose less rigorous health standards.…”