Situation awareness and safety in offshore drill crews

Sneddon, Anne; Mearns, Kathryn; Flin, Rhona

doi:10.1007/s10111-006-0040-1

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“…Previous studies have demonstrated that occupational SA is related to workplace safety behavior and accident occurrence (1,5,30). Hence, this research aimed to discover how fatalistic beliefs and safety climate, as psychological and organizational factors, can affect occupational SA.…”

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The role of fatalistic beliefs and safety climate in predicting work situation awareness among workers of one petrochemical industry in Asaluyeh, Iran, in 2014

Kiani

Borjali

Farahbakhsh

et al. 2013

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Received: February 2015, Accepted: April 2015 Background: An important factor in the prevention of industrial accidents is the ability of employees to maintain awareness of the work situation, understand the information it holds, and predict how situations will develop. In the present study, we examined the role of fatalistic beliefs and safety climate in predicting occupational situation awareness (SA) among workers. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. The sample consisted of 180 employees of one petrochemical industry in Asaluyeh, Iran, in 2014. Subjects were selected using the stratified random sampling method and responded to questionnaires about demographic characteristics, occupational SA (Sneddon et al.), fatalistic beliefs (Williamson et al.), and safety climate (Hayes et al.). The data were analyzed using correlation techniques and stepwise regression. Results:The results showed internal correlation among fatalistic beliefs, safety climate, and occupational SA. Moreover, the results of stepwise regression analysis revealed that fatalistic beliefs and safety climate significantly predicted, respectively, almost 18% and 20% of variances of occupational SA among workers. Conclusions: According to the findings of the present study, fatalistic beliefs and safety climate can predict occupational SA. Therefore, considering these variables can be important in promoting the awareness of work situation among workers.

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“…This means having a high level of awareness of job duties and workplace conditions, and judging how these may change in the near future to predict how the situation will develop (1,2). Cognitive psychologists have long been interested in attention skills (3), and the role of cognitive skills in safety issues is well documented (4).…”

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The role of fatalistic beliefs and safety climate in predicting work situation awareness among workers of one petrochemical industry in Asaluyeh, Iran, in 2014

Kiani

Borjali

Farahbakhsh

et al. 2013

JOHE

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“…With traditional media, this type of information was nearly impossible to obtain, leading to a state of team opacity related to coordination problems and failures (Fiore et al 2003). As work in the aviation industry and offshore oil drilling demonstrates, situational awareness and understanding of situations play an important role in the avoidance of accidents (Jones and Endsley 1996;Sneddon et al 2006). As Heyer (2009) observed in his ethnographic study in an oil and gas refinery, engineers were conscious about their lower level of awareness about details on the plant compared to field operators with continuous access.…”

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Technology Effects in Distributed Team Coordination—High-Interdependency Tasks in Offshore Oil Production

Bayerl

Lauche

2010

Comput Supported Coop Work

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Abstract. For highly interdependent yet location-specific tasks, distributed teams need to closely coordinate activities and processes. This field study in the upstream oil and gas industry focused on challenges in the coordination of highly interdependent tasks if teams work remotely on an ongoing basis. Based on 78 semi-structured interviews and observations over a period of 12 months, we identified coordination requirements for primary team activities, as well as effects of changing media capabilities to overcome difficulties of ongoing distribution. Implications for media requirements in the support of ongoing distributed teams are discussed.

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“…Most industrial accidents typically occur after a chain of organizational failures and human error, of which the share of human-factor causes is estimated to be 70-80% [2,3]. Among the human-factor causes, the ability of operators to understand what is going on their worksite environment is a critical element in preventing accidents.…”

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“…Among the human-factor causes, the ability of operators to understand what is going on their worksite environment is a critical element in preventing accidents. This cognitive ability is referred to as situation awareness (SA) and indicates a high level of awareness of task and environmental conditions, as well as an ability to predict how conditions may change in the near future and understand how situations will develop [3]. To date, several SA models such as Taylor [4], Endsley [5], Adams et al [6], and Bendy and Meister [7] have been developed; of these, Endsley's model has received the most attention from the human factor community.…”

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A safety-critical decision support system evaluation using situation awareness and workload measures

Naderpour

Zhang

2016

Reliability Engineering & System Safety

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Abstract:To ensure the safety of operations in safety-critical systems, it is necessary to maintain operators' situation awareness (SA) at a high level. A situation awareness support system (SASS) has therefore been developed to handle uncertain situations [1]. This paper aims to systematically evaluate the enhancement of SA in SASS by applying a multi-perspective approach. The approach consists of two SA metrics, SAGAT and SART, and one workload metric, NASA-TLX. The first two metrics are used for the direct objective and subjective measurement of SA, while the third is used to estimate operator workload. The approach is applied in a safety-critical environment called residue treater, located at a chemical plant in which a poor human-system interface reduced the operator's SA and caused one of the worst accidents in US history. A counterbalanced within-subjects experiment is performed using a virtual environment interface with and without the support of SASS. The results indicate that SASS improves operators' SA, and specifically has benefits for SA levels 2 and 3. In addition, it is concluded that SASS reduces operator workload, although further investigations in different environments with a larger number of participants have been suggested.

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Situation awareness and safety in offshore drill crews

Cited by 121 publications

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The role of fatalistic beliefs and safety climate in predicting work situation awareness among workers of one petrochemical industry in Asaluyeh, Iran, in 2014

The role of fatalistic beliefs and safety climate in predicting work situation awareness among workers of one petrochemical industry in Asaluyeh, Iran, in 2014

Technology Effects in Distributed Team Coordination—High-Interdependency Tasks in Offshore Oil Production

A safety-critical decision support system evaluation using situation awareness and workload measures

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