Organizational Safety Culture: Improving Awareness in Offshore Environment

This report proposes a quantitative and qualitative study on how to improve awareness in offshore environments. The study will focus on the views of those living and working in these areas, and those concerned with causing human-caused calamities. The data collected will be analyzed to provide recommendations on how to improve awareness in the offshore environment.

Organizational Safety Culture: A Quantitative and Qualitative Report Proposal on How to
Improve Awareness in offshore environment
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Abstract
Offshore environment are areas that are located next to large water bodies; seas, oceans, lakes
and rivers. Such areas are exposed to various calamities arising from the ocean either natural or
man-made. For example, when oil is drilled from an ocean, other chemicals other chemicals and
toxic substances come up with it e.g. lead, arsenic and mercury which led to the beaching one
hundred whales in Madagascar (Nixon, 2008).
From the many calamities, it is necessary that the society living around be made aware of the
risks. This will allow them make necessary precautions to ensure that the calamities are avoided.
For this reason, a research is proposed on how to improve awareness in the offshore
environments.
The project proposed will therefore focus on the views of those living around these areas; those
working here and the ones concerned with causing human caused calamities. Individuals
sampled from the population will be given questionnaires to answer and secondary data will also
be necessary.
The data collected will then be cleaned and analyzed using statistical packages (R package or
STATA or SPSS). From this, conclusions and relevant recommendations will be applied on how
to improve awareness deliverance in the offshore environment.
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Table of Contents
Abstract............................................................................................................................................2
CHAPTER ONE..............................................................................................................................4
1.1 Introduction..........................................................................................................................4
1.2 Problem statement...............................................................................................................5
1.3 Research objectives.............................................................................................................5
1.4 Research questions...............................................................................................................5
1.5 Significance of the study.....................................................................................................7
1.5.1 Significance to academia...........................................................................................7
1.5.2 Significance to the Industry.......................................................................................7
1.6 Scope of the Research..........................................................................................................7
1.7 Limitations of the Research.................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................11
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CHAPTER ONE
1.1 Introduction
The assessment of offshore safety environment in workplaces has been an overarching research
topic in the last few decades. Most of the time, this topic has been assessed by use of Likert-
scaled survey instrument and previous results have shown that there are potential number of
latent factors that do account for offshore safety environmental perceptions. This research will
aim to study the organizational Safety Culture of MDPC Company basing on both qualitative
and quantitative measures. MDPC is a joint venture company between SBM Offshore and MISC
Bhd. The company has a total of 145 employees and the highest reporting rank is the board of
directors. MDPC is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia but has offices in Labuan and
Monaco. All the administrative work as well as financial/accounting, procurement and HR duties
are carried out in Kuala Lumpur while Labuan deals with logistic issues and Monaco deals with
Tech related issues/support (e.g. production and maintenance).
Offshore environment are areas that are located next to large water bodies; seas, oceans, lakes
and rivers. Such areas are exposed to various calamities arising from the ocean either natural or
man-made (Harmony, 1998).
Climatic and weather patterns have always resulted to rising sea levels, earthquakes and floods
resulting to the loss of lives (J.K, 2001). Large ships transporting gases and oils have caused
several deaths whenever spills occur in the oceans. Mining operations with the areas have also
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resulted to emission of gases and dangerous minerals that have for several occurrences polluted
water and the water users.
Improving awareness involves adjusting the already existing means of creating awareness and
coming up with new ones that can ensure maximum control to the catastrophe arising from the
offshore environments (J.K, 2001).
To cope well with this, people in such environments should be made aware of the problems and
how to avoid them. This calls for the study on how awareness will be improved in the offshore
areas.
1.2 Problem statement
Offshore environments have for the past times experienced several calamities. This has taken
course in several sectors; manufacturing, transport, mining and even natural calamities. Attention
is therefore diverted to ways through which such can be prevented. Creating awareness being
one of the means, should be promoted among the workers, manufacturers and residents in the
offshore environment. Proper awareness created either quantitatively or qualitatively or both will
result to reduced incidents of catastrophes associated with the offshore environments. This
makes the statement of the problem.
1.3 Research objectives
The main objective of the research will be to determine better and effective ways of creating
awareness in the offshore environment. This will include both qualitative and quantitative
measures.
1.4 Research questions
The research questions will include:
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1. Does Eye technology promote awareness among those working in the offshore
environments
2. Does meteorologists play a role in creating awareness in the offshore climatic and
weather trends
3. What is the role of media in promoting awareness about the offshore environment?
4. What is the role of miners, transporters and manufacturers in creating awareness about
the effect of their actions to the offshore environment?
From the above research questions, the following hypothesis have been derived and will be
tested in the study.
1. H0: eye technology does not promote awareness among those working in the offshore
environments
H1: eye technology promotes awareness among those working in offshore environment
2. H0: meteorologists do not promote awareness about weather and climatic changes in
offshore environments
H1: meteorologists promote awareness about weather and climatic changes in offshore
environments
3. H0: media platforms do not promote awareness in the offshore environmental dangers
and preventive awareness.
H1: media platforms promote awareness on the offshore environmental dangers and
preventive measures.
4. H0: minors, transporters and manufacturers do not promote awareness on the
precautions of living and operating in offshore environments.
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H1: minors, transporters and manufacturers promote awareness on the pre caution of
living and operating in offshore environments.
1.5 Significance of the study
The study will be relevant in reducing the accidents and catastrophes experienced in the offshore
environments. From the qualitative and quantitative ideas given by the people, people will be
aware of the times of hurricanes, weather flows, increasing ocean levels. People will be able to
handle properly spills like oil spill in the seas hence avoiding death of living things. Individuals
will be much aware of the risks incurred in sea operations for example, how to dress up among
the workers in the offshore drilling of oil and even how to handle gases emitted from the mining
process.
1.5.1 Significance to academia
This research will add to the existing body of knowledge. The scholars all over the world will be
able to understand the offshore measures in place as well any of the existing challenges in terms
of the safety measures in offshore environment.
1.5.2 Significance to the Industry
The study will be of relevance to the company as well as other players in the industry in coming
up with measures to reduce the accidents and catastrophes experienced in the offshore
environments. From the qualitative and quantitative ideas given by the people, people will be
aware of the times of hurricanes, weather flows, increasing ocean levels. People will be able to
handle properly spills like oil spill in the seas hence avoiding death of living things.
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1.6 Scope of the Research
From the extension of offshore drilling operations, there has been a result of more complex and
risky borderlines. The steady and worrying risks arising from this has diverted industrial focus
on the situational awareness and safety processing (Harmony, 1998). The operations always
experience additional monetary problem and time wastage whenever there is failure at any of the
accounts. Workers have also reported instances of either psychological or physical or both
problems which stimulates luckless and unfortunate incidents. (Harmony, 1998)
Situation awareness (SA) is believed to be rightfully associated with meta-cognitive abilities of
mankind. It has been conceived as directly associated with meta-cognitive faculties of human,
yet enumerating the mental abilities of man while operating the systemic atmosphere tangibly is
a far-fetched idea. The door to such ideas is basically the Eye-tracking. This is a long time idea
that has taken several diversities in implementation to various fields such as aviation, weather
and climate and even in the field of medicine. From the experiments conducted in the Virtual
Reality Drilling Simulator (VRDS) equipped with eye tracking technology, the ocular activities
of participants were recorded and analyzed to bring on board their behaviors. The cameras in the
device recorded the characteristics of the participants’ behaviors. From this, the size of the pupils
and the eye fixation count were all recorded which was later used for answering hypothesis
(Kang & Landry, 2015).
The change in weather patterns and climatic trends also require the weather men to give proper
and on time conditions so as to make the people aware and the authority concerned to act.
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) in the US interior department
has a goal of developing, administering and implementing control program that ensures lessees,
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operators and contractors operate an environmental friendly manner during the exploration of
minerals such as oil, natural gas and the renewable energy sources (Kaczmarek, 2016).
Quantitative method involves measurement of observable phenomena while qualitative methods
engages ideas, opinions and trends of events. This involves several methods for biodiversity and
ecosystem management (Burgman, 1998). This implies that the project will engage both factors
in arriving to a conclusion of proper ways of promoting awareness.
1.7 Limitations of the Research
The study will experience several limitations but not limited to:
1. Cost of transport to the offshore environments may be high;
2. Uncooperative and unruly respondents who may give insincere answers;
3. Offshore areas being with sometimes unfavorable weather and terrain, there will be a
challenge in travelling
1.8 Operational definitions
Situation awareness (SA): this refers to informing the people affected/ to be affected on the
possible dangers of a specific activity that is likely to occur in the area.
R-program, STATA and SPSS: these are statistical packages applied in data analysis.
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE): This is an environmental
body in the USA in charge of controlling offshore and seas operations to ensure the environment
is well protected.
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Eye tracker- this is a kind of technology where eyes are dressed with the machines capable of
reading the pupil sizes and movements that will then translate to the drilling effects on the eyes
conclusion.
1.9 Organization of Chapters
The next chapters are organized as follows;
 Chapter Two: Literature review
o Overview
o The Broader Concepts
o Specific Concepts
o Fundamental Theories
o Gaps in the Literature
o Theoretical Framework
o Hypotheses
o Conclusion
 Chapter Three: Methodology
o Overview
o Research Design
o Unit of Analysis
o Sampling Design
o Data Collection Methodology
o Analysis of the Methodology
o Conclusion
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