Safety Management and 'Paperwork' –Offshore Managers, Reporting Practice, and HSE

摘要

This paper discusses the relationship between the extensive reporting and documentationrnrequirements attached to managerial positions in the offshore industry, and how this may affectrnmanagers' abilities to obtain hands-on experience from the operations on board. The paper sees today'srnincident reporting practice in the offshore industry as problematic, because it is based on the idea thatrnmajor and minor accidents have the same common origin, because essential facts are drowning in a searnof information, and because it is very time consuming. The main findings in this paper stem from arnsurvey exploring paperwork duties among 187 offshore managers in an oil company in Norway.