Risk Perceptions of Offshore Workers on UK Oil and Gas Platforms

Mark Fleming, Rhona Flin, Kathryn Mearns and Rachael Gordon

Risk Analysis, 1998, vol. 18, issue 1, 103-110

Abstract: Knowledge of the workforce's risk perceptions and attitudes to safety is necessary for the development of a safety culture, where each person accepts responsibility for working safely. The ACSNI Human Factors report stresses the importance of assessing workforce perceptions of risk to achieve a proper safety culture. Risk perception research has been criticized for insufficient analysis of the causal relationships between risk factors and perceived risk. The present study reports some of the factors which predicted risk perception in a sample of 622 employees from six UKCS offshore oil installations who completed a 15‐section questionnaire. This paper focuses on the accuracy of workers’ risk perceptions and what underlying factors predict the perception of personal risk from both major and minor hazards.

Date: 1998
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