Show simple item record

dc.contributor.advisorMaria, Sydnes
dc.contributor.authorWolff, Steffen Hauge
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-13T13:03:54Z
dc.date.available2015-08-13T13:03:54Z
dc.date.issued2015-06-01
dc.description.abstractThe main purpose of this study was to contribute to understanding of how safety culture affects the performance of safety information systems (SISs). More particularly, to investigate how safety culture can both facilitate and inhibit a SIS to function effectively. The thesis has been carried out as a qualitative, single case study of an onshore facility in the oil and gas industry. Seven semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted. Informants included employees from the operational, line-management and management level. In addition, textual analysis of internal management system documents was used. Analysis has revealed that safety culture both facilitates and inhibits performance of a SIS. The facility has implemented multiple organizational measures directed at safety that together influences the development of safety culture. This safety culture further affects performance of the established SIS. Facilitating factors to several of the SIS’ phases were: personal reporting in combination with a mutual established trust between the management and operative personnel. In addition, there is an established practice of asking the operative personnel follow-up questions related to reported incidents, which enhances the understanding and accuracy of conducted risk analysis in the system. At last, there is a continuous monitoring of incoming reports in the SIS, seeking to avoid particularly personnel injuries and facilitating response time. However, several inhibiting factors have also been identified: there is a strong belief that under-reporting is happening with the facility, which potentially inhibits the performance of the whole SIS. There is also a need to use the operative personnel’s expertise more in cases when they possess the best knowledge. In addition, the multiple workshops within the facility know little about each other’s preventive work. At present, lack of experience transfer internally inhibits performance of the SIS. The facility is moving towards having an effective SIS. However, there needs to be continuous improvement, starting by acting upon the identified inhibiting factors. Overall, a basis has been already established. The future is about developing the safety culture further.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/7913
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_7499
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2015 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDSVF-3920en_US
dc.subjectsafety information systemen_US
dc.subjectsafety cultureen_US
dc.subjectsafety management systemen_US
dc.subjectsafety managementen_US
dc.subjectinformed cultureen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Statsvitenskap og organisasjonsteori: 240en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Political science and organizational theory: 240en_US
dc.titleThe role of safety culture in establishing an effective safety information system in the oil and gas industry. A case study of an onshore facilityen_US
dc.typeMaster thesisen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen_US


File(s) in this item

Thumbnail
Thumbnail

This item appears in the following collection(s)

Show simple item record

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)