TITLE:
Assessment of Safety Culture in Global Offshore Environments
AUTHORS:
Jagadeesh Kilaparthi
KEYWORDS:
Health and Safety Culture, Offshore Environment, Oil and Gas Environment
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Environmental Protection,
Vol.5 No.11,
August
26,
2014
ABSTRACT: This project aims at presenting detailed assessment of health and safety
culture in global offshore environments. Such assessment will be then utilized
for developing and recommending a model capable of integrating safety behaviour
and culture in global offshore environments. The global offshore environment is
a quite wider term and therefore underlying study has specified and narrowed it
down to the oil and gas industry. In other words, the discussion of health and
safety culture is done in light of oil and gas industry and its environment. The
proposed model “incident-free and low-risk contracting model” aims at fostering
health and safety culture in oil and gas environments. It is worth mentioning
that implementation of model requires effective support and collaboration
between trade unions, industry associations, employers, and government
agencies. The objectives of the proposed model will be identified in terms of
Fostering sound leadership, Gaining management commitment, Gaining support and
involvement of workforce, Reducing risk instances, Accident reduction
objective.