Safety compliance in a highly regulated environment: A case study of workers’ knowledge of rules and procedures within the petroleum industry

Dahl, Øyvind

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2013.07.020

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“…The cognitive strengths of humans must be emphasized, but also how operators feel and interact with operations and management and designed objects [21]. For example, a Norwegian study showed that the workers often thought it was difficult to find the relevant governing documentation within the safety management system, so they needed to use more effort and time in order to find what they needed [22]. This makes it unnecessary difficult for the workers to find the information they need in order to fulfill their tasks and to make the necessary decisions.…”

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Safety Management Systems as communication in an oil and gas producing company

Wold

Laumann

2015

Safety Science

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Safety Management Systems as communication in an oil and gas producing company

Wold

Laumann

2015

Safety Science

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“…Casey and Krauss [4] investigated the relationships between the error management climate and miner safety performance, and found that co-worker safety support and safety communication exhibited particularly strong relationships with safety performance. Dahl [5] identified the most significant factors within the organizational context, which affects the worker's knowledge of rules and procedures on the basis of semi-structured interviews; in particular, these factors can be sorted into three paramount categories: the safety management system, work characteristics and social interaction. Many accident investigations also provide the following information about potential reasons for coal mine accidents, for example: "Lacking the necessary safety awareness, leaders of the ventilation team and tile inspection team fail to make a timely arrangement for the hidden danger after they receive a notification, neither do they implement any monitor or inspection in this area."…”

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Study on the Relationship between Worker States and Unsafe Behaviours in Coal Mine Accidents Based on a Bayesian Networks Model

2019

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Unsafe behaviours, such as violations of rules and procedures, are commonly identified as important causal factors in coal mine accidents. Meanwhile, a recurring conclusion of accident investigations is that worker states, such as mental fatigue, illness, physiological fatigue, etc., are important contributory factors to unsafe behaviour. In this article, we seek to provide a quantitative analysis on the relationship between the worker state and unsafe behaviours in coal mine accidents, based on a case study drawn from Chinese practice. Using Bayesian networks (BN), a graphical structure of the network was designed with the help of three experts from a coal mine safety bureau. In particular, we propose a verbal versus numerical fuzzy probability assessment method to elicit the conditional probability of the Bayesian network. The junction tree algorithm is further employed to accomplish this analysis. According to the BN established by expert knowledge, the results show that when the worker is in a poor state, the most vulnerable unsafe behaviour is violation, followed by decision-making error. Furthermore, insufficient experience may be the most significant contributory factor to unsafe behaviour, and poor fitness for duty may be the principal state that causes unsafe behaviours.

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“…The choice of this industrial category is justified not only by its high-risk activities [45], [46], but also by the fact that both old and recent research works have indicated that the main causes of 90% of the incidents are related to professional behavior (such as the NR-WPs), while those of only 10% are related to work conditions [47], [48].…”

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Proposal for an Evaluation Method for the Performance of Work Procedures

Mouda

Djebabra

Boulagouas

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Safety and Health at Work

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BackgroundNoncompliance of operators with work procedures is a recurrent problem. This human behavior has been said to be situational and studied by many different approaches (ergonomic and others), which consider the noncompliance with work procedures to be obvious and seek to analyze its causes as well as consequences.MethodsThe object of the proposed method is to solve this problem by focusing on the performance of work procedures and ensuring improved performance on a continuous basis.ResultsThis study has multiple results: (1) assessment of the work procedures' performance by a multicriteria approach; (2) the use of a continuous improvement approach as a framework for the sustainability of the assessment method of work procedures' performance; and (3) adaptation of the Stop-Card as a facilitator support for continuous improvement of work procedures.ConclusionThe proposed method emphasizes to put in value the inputs of continuous improvement of the work procedures in relation with the conventional approaches which adopt the obvious evidence of the noncompliance to the working procedures and seek to analyze the cause–effect relationships related to this unacceptable phenomenon, especially in strategic industry.

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Safety compliance in a highly regulated environment: A case study of workers’ knowledge of rules and procedures within the petroleum industry

Cited by 64 publications

References 43 publications

Safety Management Systems as communication in an oil and gas producing company

Safety Management Systems as communication in an oil and gas producing company

Study on the Relationship between Worker States and Unsafe Behaviours in Coal Mine Accidents Based on a Bayesian Networks Model

Proposal for an Evaluation Method for the Performance of Work Procedures

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