Strengthening the safety culture of the offshore oil and gas industry /

"TRB Special Report 321: Strengthening the Safety Culture of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry offers recommendations to industry and regulators to strengthen and sustain the safety culture of the offshore oil and gas industry. The committee that prepared the report addresses conceptual challen...

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Corporate Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on U.S. Offshore Oil and Gas Industry Safety Culture (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Transportation Research Board, 2016.
Series:Special report (National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board) ; 321.
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Online Access:http://www.trb.org/Publications/Blurbs/174395.aspx
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Summary:"TRB Special Report 321: Strengthening the Safety Culture of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry offers recommendations to industry and regulators to strengthen and sustain the safety culture of the offshore oil and gas industry. The committee that prepared the report addresses conceptual challenges in defining safety culture and discusses the empirical support for the definition of safety culture offered by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, the nine characteristics or elements of a robust safety culture, methods for assessing company safety culture, and barriers to improving safety culture in the offshore industry. The committee's report also identifies topics on which further research is needed with respect to assessing, improving, and sustaining safety culture"--
Physical Description:xiv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Also available online.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780309369862
030936986X