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Risk Perceptions of Offshore Workers on UK Oil and Gas Platforms
Author(s) -
Fleming Mark,
Flin Rhona,
Mearns Kathryn,
Gordon Rachael
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
risk analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 130
eISSN - 1539-6924
pISSN - 0272-4332
DOI - 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1998.tb00920.x
Subject(s) - risk perception , workforce , perception , occupational safety and health , sample (material) , risk assessment , submarine pipeline , applied psychology , risk management , engineering , risk analysis (engineering) , environmental health , psychology , business , medicine , computer security , computer science , political science , finance , chemistry , pathology , chromatography , neuroscience , law , geotechnical engineering
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.