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Examines the struggle to institute legal safety reforms in the offshore sector of the UK. The 1988 Piper Alpha platform disaster, which killed 167 people, exposed regulatory failures that endangered rig workers & resulted in the creation of a new offshore safety regime. However, Cost Reduction Initiatives for the New Era (CRINE), launched by the oil companies after the disaster, undermined the new health/safety regulations with the help of the UK government. The history of the UK offshore oil sector is traced, emphasizing the collapse of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries quota system & the formation of the Cullen commission to investigate the causes of the Piper Alpha disaster. Although the commission's final report was a damning indictment of the oil company & current safety regulations, its proposal of a new goal-setting-based regulatory system is focused on self-regulation. The government's reluctance to take an active role in safety decisions allowed CRINE to concentrate on cutting costs at the expense of occupational safety. J. Lindroth

"Since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout and oil spill, efforts to improve safety in the offshore oil industry have resulted in the adoption of new technological controls, increased promotion of safety culture, and the adoption of new data collection systems to improve both safety and performance. As an essential element of a positive safety culture, operators and regulators are increasingly integrating strategies that empower workers to participate in process safety decisions that reduce hazards and improve safety. While the human factors of personal safety have been widely studied and widely adopted in many high-risk industries, process safety - the application of engineering, design, and operative practices to address major hazard concerns - is less well understood from a human factors perspective, particularly in the offshore oil industry. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine organized a workshop in January 2018 to explore best practices and lessons learned from other high-risk, high-reliability industries for the benefit of the research community and of citizens, industry practitioners, decision makers, and officials addressing safety in the offshore oil industry. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop"--Publisher's description

Intro -- FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction and Themes of the Workshop -- 2 The Piper Alpha and the Deepwater Horizon -- 3 Effective Worker Empowerment for Offshore Safety -- 4 The Roles of Different Stakeholders -- 5 Barriers to Effective Worker Empowerment -- 6 Lessons from Offshore Operations in Other Regions -- 7 Current Systems for Worker Responses to Unsafe Conditions, Worker Interventions, and Reporting -- 8 Training for Empowerment -- 9 Important Messages and Potential Next Steps -- Appendix A: Workshop Agenda -- Appendix B: Workshop Participants -- Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members, Speakers, and Moderators

Introduction and themes of the workshop -- The Piper Alpha and the Deepwater Horizon -- Effective worker empowerment for offshore safety -- The roles of different stakeholders -- Barriers to effective worker empowerment -- Lessons from offshore operations in other regions -- Current systems for worker responses to unsafe conditions, worker interventions, and reporting -- Training for empowerment -- Important messages and potential next steps -- Appendixes.

This paper examines the problems involved in developing collective bargaining in the traditionally non‐union environment of the strategically important UK offshore oil industry. In doing so it provides evidence on the success of the "new", stakeholder industrial relations environment established by the present UK government. Drawing on an in‐depth insight into management and union strategies gained from action research, the paper documents the attempt to establish a collective agreement and a partnership approach to industrial relations in the drilling sector of the North Sea offshore oil industry, a sector which has had no previous history of unionisation. In doing the research provides evidence partnership policy, the literature on union recognition and the process of negotiation in international organisations.