Publications

A workshop about the role of the human factor in Plant Operations. This was conducted at OECD Environment Monograph No. 44 (held in Tokyo, 1991; published 1992)

This approach enables novel understanding of not only incident causation but also of the solution strategies employed to prevent incidents. It also proposes a different approach to the measurement of the safety of an operation that avoids simply equating safety with not having incidents.

The original proposal came from the company after it had become clear that expec- tations had been raised after the successful implementation of Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Management Systems subsequent to the Piper Alpha disaster.

The paper first discusses the problem of non-compliance in high hazard industries, as these constitute the most frequent type of dangerous activities in terms of accident outcomes.

Creation and Application of Management Methods to Guide Organisations Towards Generative. This paper discusses the novel understanding of the difference between the steps in the IOSP HSSE culture ladder and the methods.

Incident investigation techniques in all high-hazard industries still concentrate primarily on discovering the immediate causes, such as the technical failures and the more frequent human shortcomings that led directly to the incident.

The paper discusses the factors that contribute to non-compliant behavior in complex operations. This discussion is applied for boards and executives or safety leads and operational teams.

Structural Understanding Underlying the Safety Culture Ladder. This paper was presented at SPE International Health, Safety, Enviornment, and Sustainability Conference and Exhibition on 10-12 September 2024 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates