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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Offshore workers"”.
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Promoting and implementing self care: a mixed methods study of offshore workers and remote healthcare practitioners.
… who are adept in coping with the demands of an offshore environment. Due to the high risk nature of work offshore, it is a requisite that personnel engage in health promoting behaviours. The research aimed to identify aspects of offshore workers self care which required behaviour change and the …
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3D anthropometry: quantifying the shape and size variability within the UK male offshore oil and gas workforce.
Background: UK male offshore workers typically increased in weight by 19% since 1985, and are also heavier than the background UK male population. Aim: To conduct an anthropometric survey on UK offshore workers, employing the latest portable 3D scanning technology, to quantify size and shape change …
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Industrial relations in the North Sea oil and gas industry 1965-1995.
… e relationships of the trade unions and the offshore companies, both Norwegian and British, where they concern employment and related matters such as accident prevention and those interventions which govermnents have made in response to particular events. In addition research papers and other …
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Psychological aspects of risk and safety management in the UK offshore oil and gas industry.
… aspects of risk and safety management in the UK offshore oil and gas industry, however the results have implications for other high hazard industries. This thesis consists of three studies. The first risk perception study aimed to investigate the relative accuracy of offshore workers' risk …
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Safety On A Drilling Rig: Is It Safety Culture?
<p>Why do workers on a modern offshore drilling rig continue to make decisions leading to unsafe conditions, acts or incidents? In a perfect world, workers in any industry would go to work and come home in the same condition as they started the day: no incidents. Worker injuries and deaths are all …
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Stress: the physiology and psychology of a training situation.
… to assess the psychophysiological effects of offshore survival training, and to investigate whether responses of trainees differed according to age. A group of 99 subjects, randomly selected from across a wide age range, volunteered and subsequently were monitored during the training. The …
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Commercial Helicopter Services: Toward Quantitative Solutions for Understanding Industry Phenomena and Achieving Stakeholder Optimization
… presents analyses related to the optimization of offshore worker transportation and econometric analyses of factors influencing commercial helicopter operators’ stock returns, which are represented throughout the manuscript as Part I and Part II, respectively.</p> <p>The global energy industry …
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The provision of health care in remote hostile environments.
… environments is reviewed, concentrating on the offshore oil industry and Antarctic populations. An understanding of associated environmental hazards is essential for adequate health care and particular attention is paid to the hyperbaric environment and to environmental heat and cold. The basic …