Safety understandings among crane operators and process operators on a Norwegian offshore platform

Safety Science

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 520-534

  Nævestad, Tor Olav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Crane operators; Discernments; Metaphors; Offhsore; Process operators; Safety culture; Symbolic interpretive approach; Work process

Indexed keywords

CRANES; DATA ACQUISITION; DISASTER PREVENTION; HAZARDS;

CRANE OPERATORS; PROCESS OPERATORS; SAFETY CULTURE; SYMBOLIC INTERPRETIVE APPROACH; WORK PROCESS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; NORWAY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; OFFSHORE OIL INDUSTRY; OPERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 38949126532     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2007.05.013     Document Type: Article

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