Safety and risk
Key research topics in this field include HES cultures, behaviour-based versus culture-based perspectives on safety, organisational safety, perceived risk, the effect of confidence on safety, maintaining safety and reliability in change processes, and the development of good and reliable measuring tools for HES.
IRIS has a long-standing tradition of conducting safety research. The research is varied and aimed at a range of participants and sectors: the petroleum industry, traffic and transport, construction, fishing, agriculture, regulatory bodies and decision support, to name but a few. This research has provided us with a range of perspectives in the form of various theoretical and methodical approaches.
Current projects:
Integrated operations (strategic institute programme)
IT safety in integrated operations
Young workers in the construction industry
Selected completed projects:
Successful integration of Statoil and Hydro
Policy and practice in Smedvig's HES culture
Risk levels in the petroleum sector (RNNP)
Preventing violence in the public sphere
Analysis of correlations between human and organisational factors and the risk of gas leakage at Statoil and Hydro
Safety in prisons
Developing systematic HES work
A comparative study of HES culture amongst staff on the British and Norwegian sectors
Health and environment as a matter of caution? Policy and practice in ABB's HES culture
HES and culture (leaflet produced for the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority)
Risk analysis for the Stavanger region