Resilience and brittleness in the offshore helicopter transportation system: The identification of constraints and sacrifice decisions in pilots’ work

Gomes, José Orlando; Woods, David D.; Carvalho, Paulo Cezar Pinto; Huber, Gilbert J.; Borges, Marcos R. S.

doi:10.1016/j.ress.2008.03.026

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“…Gomes et al [44] present a clear example, in which the risks of the offshore helicopter industry justify a study of system resilience. Morel, Amalberti and Chauvin [45,46] do exactly the same in their two studies of fishing operations.…”

Section: Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[15,35,43,[60][61][62]); resilience as 'the ability to keep the system within its functional limits' (e.g. [44,63]); and resilience as the four corner-stones defined by Hollnagel (e.g. [39,53]).…”

Section: The Resilience Object: What Is Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Gomes et al [44], in their empirical study of offshore helicopter transportation, set the stage for their study stating that: "resilience engineering, using CTA, looks at how sharp-end practitioners adapt to various types of pressures and reveals brittle points in the system" (p. 317).…”

Section: Sharp-end Staff -Activities or Skillsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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On the rationale of resilience in the domain of safety: A literature review

Bergström

Winsen

Henriqson

2015

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Resilience is becoming a prevalent agenda in safety research and organisational practice. In this study we examine how the peer-reviewed safety science literature (a) formulates the rationale behind the study of resilience; (b) constructs resilience as a scientific object; and (c) constructs and locates the resilient subject. The results suggest that resilience engineering scholars typically motivate the need for their studies by referring to the inherent complexities of modern sociotechnical systems; complexities that make these systems inherently risky. The object of resilience then becomes the capacity to adapt to such emerging risks in order to guarantee the success of the inherently risky system. In the material reviewed, the subject of resilience is typically the individual, either at the sharp end or at higher managerial levels. The individual is called-upon to adapt in the face of risk to secure the continuous performance of the system. Based on the results from how resilience has been introduced in safety sciences we raise three ethical questions for the field to address: (1) should resilience be seen as people thriving despite of, or because of, risk?; (2) should resilience theory form a basis for moral judgement?; and finally (3) how much should resilience be approached as a trait of the individual?

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Section: The Resilience Object: What Is Resiliencementioning

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On the rationale of resilience in the domain of safety: A literature review

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Winsen

Henriqson

2015

Reliability Engineering & System Safety

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“…However, when actually conducting studies the empirical focus often seems to be on the individual operators, the activities that they engage in (Nemeth et al 2007, Patterson et al 2007, Gomes et al 2009, Grote et al 2009, or the skills that they have (Morel et al 2008, Re and Macchi 2010. Although some studies seem to simply move the subject of resilience from the sharp end operators to the blunt end managers (Miller and Xiao 2007, Paltrinieri et al 2012, Carmeli et al 2013, others do address connections between different organizational levels to understand or improve resilience.…”

Section: Meso: Resilient Organizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging the Macro and the Micro by Considering the Meso: Reflections on the Fractal Nature of Resilience

Bergström¹,

Dekker²

2014

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ABSTRACT. We pursued the following three interconnected points: (1) there are unexplored opportunities for resilience scholars from different disciplines to cross-inspire and inform, (2) a systems perspective may enhance understanding of human resilience in health and social settings, and (3) resilience is often considered to be fractal, i.e., a phenomenon with recognizable or recurring features at a variety of scales. Following a consideration of resilience from a systems perspective, we explain how resilience can, for analytic purposes, be constructed at four scales: micro, meso, macro, and cross-scale. Adding to the cross-scale perspective of the social-ecological field, we have suggested an analytical framework for resilience studies of the health field, which incorporates holism and complexity by embracing an ecological model of cognition, something supported by empirical studies of organizations in crisis situations at various spatial as well as temporal scales.

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“…Mayhew et al 1997) and safety/production trade-offs (e.g. Gomes et al 2009) contribute to a narrow operational focus where employees from various companies are largely concerned with their own tasks and responsibilities, neglecting the operation as a whole. In turn, such issues can lead to elevated risk of major accident due to their potential to undermine the ability of the system to identify and comprehend risk signals.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustaining safety across organizational boundaries: a qualitative study exploring how interorganizational complexity is managed on a petroleum-producing installation

Milch

Laumann

2018

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A qualitative study was undertaken to explore how interorganizational complexity is managed on a petroleum-producing installation. Fourteen semi-structured interviews were conducted. Data were analysed by means of thematic analysis. Longterm organizational relations, management's role in the field and worker involvement appear to facilitate high-quality work relations which, along with similar safety practices and philosophies across companies, appear to foster commitment to mutual operational goals and contribute to an open environment in which employees were inclined to report errors and problems. Still, due to the vast number of companies involved and the vast amount of information, coordinating work processes among companies was regarded as a constant challenge. Moreover, variations in experience among sharp-end workers from sub-contractor companies in periods of high activity and marked fluctuations were identified as a challenge. The quality of interorganizational work relations appears to have important implications for safety performance in this context, indicating that high-quality work relations across collaborating companies constitute an important component for achieving and sustaining safety. As research addressing relational factors in safety research to date has been sparse, more research is needed to further explore the safety functions of high-quality work relations. Theoretically, the current study contributes to extend the high-reliability organizations framework by highlighting the role of high-quality work relations as an element for achieving mindfulness.

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Resilience and brittleness in the offshore helicopter transportation system: The identification of constraints and sacrifice decisions in pilots’ work

Cited by 69 publications

References 4 publications

On the rationale of resilience in the domain of safety: A literature review

On the rationale of resilience in the domain of safety: A literature review

Bridging the Macro and the Micro by Considering the Meso: Reflections on the Fractal Nature of Resilience

Sustaining safety across organizational boundaries: a qualitative study exploring how interorganizational complexity is managed on a petroleum-producing installation

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