Resilience and brittleness in the offshore helicopter transportation system: The identification of constraints and sacrifice decisions in pilots' work

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 311-319

  Gomes, Jose O ^a   Woods, David D ^b   Carvalho, Paulo V R ^c   Huber, Gilbert J ^a   Borges, Marcos R S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c National Nuclear Energy Commission   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Offshore helicopter transportation; Resilience engineering; Sacrifice decision; Safety

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BRITTLENESS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; OIL FIELDS; PETROLEUM TRANSPORTATION; PLASTICITY; SAFETY ENGINEERING; TRANSPORTATION PERSONNEL;

MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; OFFSHORE TRANSPORTATIONS; OPERATING COMPANIES; PERFORMANCE VARIABILITY; RESILIENCE ENGINEERINGS; SACRIFICE DECISION; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

HELICOPTERS;

EID: 54149084328     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2008.03.026     Document Type: Article

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