Personal Resources of Oil and Gas Workers for the Purposes of Adaptation to the Negative Arctic Climate and Geographical Conditions

Abstract

The article is devoted to determination of the personal recourses of oil and gas workers to overcome the negative impact of Arctic climate and geographical conditions. The study was carried out as a scientific expedition, with a participation of 70 oil and gas workers of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug from March to April 2015 (rotation shift duration - 30 days), aged from 24 to 60 years (average age 38.46 ± 1.410) The study was conducted through questionnaires, psychological tests. Statistical analysis was performed using the methods of descriptive statistics and discriminative analysis. Data processing was carried out using SPSS 22.00 software package. The study revealed the prevailing regulatory processes and mechanisms of psychological protection (as parameters of personal resources) for shift workers with low and high levels of situational and subjective meteoreaction in the Arctic. Workers with a low level of situational meteoreaction have an average level of programming and high-level of results assessment as the regulatory processes, the low level of psychological defense mechanisms - projection and regression, higher values - suppression, compensation and replacement. Specialists with low subjective meteoreaction are characterized by a higher level of programming as the regulatory process, a low level of psychological defense mechanism - compensation and high values - projection and rationalization.

Differential Analysis of Adaptation Strategies of Fly-In-Fly-Out Personnel

“…This is due to the fact that the environmental resource of their organizations, which includes more favourable climatic conditions, less distance from industrial centres and infrastructure, creates the prerequisites for the possibility of using a wider variety of ways to solve professional problems and greater opportunities to replenish their resources. In northern conditions, with significant remoteness of facilities from developed infrastructure, severe climatic conditions contribute to the desire of employees to maintain their internal resources and use them only when there is a great need (Degteva et al, 2017).…”

“…Previous studies have established that the professional activities of fly-in-fly-out workers in the Far North and the Arctic require the creation of conditions for physiological, psychological and sociopsychological adaptation (Adams et al, 2019;Albrecht & Anglim, 2018;Khasnulin & Khasnulina, 2012;Korneeva et al, 2017;Korneeva & Simonova, 2018;Mette et al, 2019;Miller et al, 2019;Vojnovic & Bahn, 2015). Activities in extreme conditions impose special requirements on the professional adaptation of workers, which is due to a combination of many adverse environmental factors and the unpredictability of stressful or emergency situations (Velasco Garrido et al, 2018;Mette et al, 2018;Gardner et al, 2018;Rebar et al, 2018;Sibbel et al, 2016).…”

Job Stress and Working Capacity among Fly-In-Fly-Out Workers in the Oil and Gas Extraction Industries in the Arctic

“…One of the key industries using a fly-in-fly-out work organization is oil and gas production. According to research data, the leading harmful and hazardous factors in oil production and oil refining industries are harmful substances that periodically exceed the maximum permissible concentration by 3–4 times, as well as noise exceeding the maximum permissible level, and significant physical and neuro-emotional stress [ 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ]. This indicates that work in oil and gas production is carried out in extreme conditions.…”

“…The peculiarity of northern climatic conditions, the intensity of physical activity inherent in FIFO work, group isolation, information deficiency and fatigue impose increased demands on the activity of all functional systems of the body [ 17 ]. In this connection, our earlier studies were carried out at various industries using FIFO: onshore oil and gas production [ 7 , 15 , 16 , 18 , 19 ], offshore oil and gas [ 20 ], diamond [ 15 , 16 , 20 ], logging [ 15 , 16 ], construction of main gas pipelines [ 8 , 20 ] and large industrial facilities—bridges [ 20 ]. These industrial facilities were located in different climatic zones (North, Arctic, South), assumed a different group isolation degree and the fly-in periods duration varied from 14 to 52 days.…”

Анализ Психического Состояния Специалистов Работающих В Арктических Условиях

“…Медицинские исследования показывают, что природные условия Арктики влияют на физиологический статус организма человека: меняется кардиореспираторная система и динамика гематологических показателей [4] [5]. В ряде исследований отмечено, что существует большой территориальный и профессиональный разброс проявлений «северного» стресса, а также индивидуальная реакция снижения работоспособности [8] [14] [20] [21].…”