This study addresses collisions between offshore facilities and visiting vessels on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. From 2001 to 2011, 26 collisions between offshore facilities and visiting vessels have taken place on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Six of these incidents, which had a very large hazard potential, are further analyzed in the current study. The analysis aims to identify common causal and underlying personal, situational, and organizational factors. The analyses suggest that the direct cause of the six ship–platform events all fall into one of two categories; unmonitored approach related to inadequate transfer of command or human deficiency to detect or interpret a technical state or error. All cases may be traced back to a shipboard practice of non-compliance with established procedures and guidelines, which in all cases apparently was standard shipboard behaviour—labelled as drifting operational practice. All incidents could be traced back to a lack of shore management system control and poor awareness of how work on the vessels is normally performed. Based on the results, organizations should use their safety management systems to identify the areas in which crews’ behaviour are drifting from the formal organizational scripts as well as understand the nature of the drift.
đang được dịch, vui lòng đợi..