Psychosocial safety climate, safety compliance and safety participation: The mediating role of psychological distress

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zeeshan Mirza ◽  
Ahmad Shahrul Nizam Isha ◽  
Mumtaz Ali Memon ◽  
Sundas Azeem ◽  
Muhammad Zahid
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Psychological Resources ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Safety Compliance ◽  
Safety Interventions ◽  
High Level

AbstractWe conceptualize that psychosocial safety climate (PSC) has a positive effect on employees' safety behavior by reducing their psychological distress. A high-level PSC environment reduces psychological distress by eliminating the employees' need for devoting psychological resources toward safety concerns. This preserves psychological resources to be invested in important behaviors i.e., safety compliance and participation. Data were collected from 190 production workers in the oil and gas industry across three states of Malaysia. Results showed strong support for our hypotheses. PSC was negatively linked with psychological distress. Psychological distress predicted safety compliance and participation and mediated the relationship between PSC and safety compliance/participation. Results suggest that in order to improve safety compliance and participation, management in safety-sensitive industries should pay attention to psychosocial factors in the work environment. The implications of these results for safety interventions and further research are discussed.

scholarly journals Safety-specific transformational leadership, safety climate and occupational accidents

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-52
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zeeshan Mirza ◽  
Ahmad Shahrul Nizam Isha
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
The Relationship

Despite the fact that safety-specific transformational leadership had been reported to have favorable outcomes on workplace safety, there is limited work on identifying its role in decreasing occupational accidents at workplace. The current study looks to fill this void by proposing safety-specific leadership approach to combat occupational accidents via safety climate. Data were collected from 270 production workers of Oil and Gas Industry across four states of Malaysia. Results showed strong support for our suppositions. Safety climate mediated the relationship between safety-specific leadership and occupational accidents. The supposition linking safety-specific transformational leadership to safety climate and safety climate to occupational accidents also found considerable support. The results are discussed in the light of previous literature and the contributions made by the study.

Analysis of Safety Climate Factors and Safety Compliance Relationships in the Oil and Gas Industry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chizubem Benson ◽  
Christos D. Argyropoulos ◽  
Christos Dimopoulos ◽  
Cleo Varianou Mikellidou ◽  
Georgios Boustras
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Climate Factors ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Safety Compliance

scholarly journals THE MAIN RESERVE OF ACCELERATED EFFECTIVE OPENING OF OIL AND GAS FIELDS IN UKRAINE

2019 ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
V. T. Kryvosheyev ◽  
V. V. Makogon ◽  
Ye. Z. Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Shale Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Hydrocarbon Production ◽  
Oil And Gas Fields ◽  
High Level ◽  
Gas Fields

Economic hardship in Ukraine during the years of independence led to a sharp reduction of exploration work on oil and gas, a drop in hydrocarbon production, a decrease in inventories and a sharp collapse of research work to ensure the growth of hydrocarbon reserves.The hydrocarbon potential of various sources of Ukrainian subsoil is quite powerful and can provide future energy independence of the country. Potential hydrocarbon resources in traditional traps of various types are exhausted by only 25 %. Ukraine has recently experienced so-called “shale gas boom”. The experience of extraction of shale gas in desert areas of the United States can not be repeated in densely populated Ukraine in the absence of such powerful shale strata, resource base, necessary infrastructure, own technologies and techniques and economic, environmental and social risks.Taking into account the fuel and energy problems of the state, we constantly throughout the years of independence oriented the oil and gas industry and the authorities on the active use of our own reserves and opportunities for accelerated opening of new oil and gas fields.The results of geological exploration work in the old oil and gas basins at the high level of their study indicate that deposits in non-structural traps dominate among open deposits.A complex of sequence-stratigraphical, lithology-facies and lithology-paleogeographical studies is being successfully used to forecast undeformational traps in well-studied oil and gas bearing basin of the Ukraine – the Dniprovsko-Donetsky basin. The authors predict wide development of stratigraphic, lithologic, tectonic and combined traps in terrigenous sediments of Tournaisian and Visean age, reef-carbonate massifs of the lower Tournaisian, lower and middle Visean age and others. They should become the basis for exploration of oil and gas fields for the near and medium term and open the second breath of the basin.

scholarly journals Biofuels as an instrument of Russia hydrocarbons and agrarian exports competitiveness

2020 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 13029
Author(s):  
Denis Ushakov ◽  
Oleg Patlasov
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Business Value ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Hydrocarbon Production ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
High Level ◽  
Science Intensity

Paper analyzes the prospects of biofuels second and third generation in the structure of the global energy balance, demonstrates a sharp decline in oil and gas revenues in the Russian budget, describes advantages and disadvantages of biodiesel and bioethanol production. The connection between the growth of Russia’s export potential in terms of hydrocarbon products processing with EU standards implementation has been proved. The problems of the realization of programs on the oxygenate technologies development in the Union State of Russia-Belarus were revealed. The capacity of the market of 3-4 generations fuel with using non-food raw materials and various types of biomass was estimated. Was proved that at a high level of growth in business value and profitability of production there are incentives to organize deep processing in Russia’s hydrocarbon production. It is proved that the oil and gas industry in a creative economy should increase its science intensity and depth of raw materials processing, including ones in related industries.

OVERSEAS RECRUITING IN THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY — A CASE STUDY

1985 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
R. Bogan
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
Company Performance ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
High Level

Early in 1982 CSR Limited established an Oil and Gas Division. By 1983 this Division had recruited twenty-six overseas technical personnel mainly from Canada and the United Kingdom. The Company needed to recruit overseas because the skills required were not available in Australia.During 1983 a review of the recruitment and settlement of these personnel and their families was undertaken. The objectives of this review were to:improve the Company performance in the recruitment, induction and settlement of overseas recruits and their families;increase the likely "length of stay" in Australia of overseas recruits and their families;to address specific problems faced by recruits and their families in settlement in Australia.In depth interviews were conducted with twenty-one of the twenty-six recruits and their families using a structured interview format.The analysis of the interviews results revealed that:on average it took longer for those recruited in the United Kingdom to obtain immigration "approvals" and to physically relocate than those recruited in Canada;families with previous experience in relocating adapted and coped better with the physical move and resettlement than families without previous experience.The detailed results showed further that:While there was sufficient information provided about the job and department, there was dissatisfaction with the lack of detailed information about aspects of living in Australia, particularly: taxation; housing; bank mortgage arrangements; cost of living data and medical insurance.There were gaps in the expectations that many- recruits and their families had about living in Australia, such as climate, lifestyle and housing. This was attributed to an "oversell" through glossy brochures and "word pictures".The attention given to staff and their families on arrival was seen as a positive introduction to Australia and CSR's Oil and Gas Division.The provision of initial temporary accommodation in a single apartment complex for all overseas recruits and families in Adelaide assisted greatly in the induction and settlement process. It provided a high level of support especially for wives with young children. The "welcome waggon" group together with the assistance provided by the wives of senior executives were also positive influences in the settlement process.The most positive features seen in the move to Australia were career and lifestyle opportunities. On the other hand loss of disposable income was seen as a significant negative.From the results and analysis a detailed set of recommendations and actions were developed to improve company performance in recruitment and settlement. These recommendations were implementated prior to the 1984 recruiting mission to Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.The preliminary results from the 1984 recruiting mission have resulted in:a reduction in recruiting lead time;quicker and more informed decision making by candidates and their families in accepting job offers;more professional preparation of both the recruiting teams and the company's agents overseas.

scholarly journals Estimating Drilling Cost and Duration Using Copulas Dependencies Models

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
M. Al Kindi ◽  
M. Al-Lawati ◽  
N. Al-Azri
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Risk Index ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Horizontal Displacement ◽  
Uncertain Variables ◽  
Drilling Cost ◽  
Dependency Model ◽  
High Level ◽  
Mathematical Computation

Estimation of drilling budget and duration is a high-level challenge for oil and gas industry. This is due to the many uncertain activities in the drilling procedure such as material prices, overhead cost, inflation, oil prices, well type, and depth of drilling. Therefore, it is essential to consider all these uncertain variables and the nature of relationships between them. This eventually leads into the minimization of the level of uncertainty and yet makes a "good" estimation points for budget and duration given the well type. In this paper, the copula probability theory is used in order to model the dependencies between cost/duration and MRI (mechanical risk index). The MRI is a mathematical computation, which relates various drilling factors such as: water depth, measured depth, true vertical depth in addition to mud weight and horizontal displacement. In general, the value of MRI is utilized as an input for the drilling cost and duration estimations. Therefore, modeling the uncertain dependencies between MRI and both cost and duration using copulas is important. The cost and duration estimates for each well were extracted from the copula dependency model where research study simulate over 10,000 scenarios. These new estimates were later compared to the actual data in order to validate the performance of the procedure. Most of the wells show moderate - weak relationship of MRI dependence, which means that the variation in these wells can be related to MRI but to the extent that it is not the primary source.  

scholarly journals The effect of organizational commitment on safety behaviors

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-73
Author(s):  
Kwangsu Moon ◽  
Jaehee Lee ◽  
Shezeen Oah
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Safety Behaviors ◽  
Normative Commitment ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Compliance Behavior ◽  
Safety Compliance ◽  
Emotional Commitment

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of organizational commitment on safety behavior and to explore moderating effect of safety climate between organizational commitment and safety behaviors. 215 workers were asked to respond to the questionnaires that measured various demographic variables, organizational commitment, safety climate and safety behaviors. A hierarchical regression was conducted to identify variables that had significant relationships with safety behaviors and to examine moderating effect of safety climate between organizational commitment and safety behaviors. Results indicated that the emotional commitment significantly predicted both safety compliance and participation behavior and the normative commitment significantly predicted safety compliance behavior. It was found that the safety climate was also a significant predictor for both safety compliance and participation behavior. In addition, safety climate had a moderating effect on the relation between emotional commitment and safety compliance behavior and normative commitment and safety compliance and participation behavior. Based on these results, the implications of this study and suggestions for future research were discussed.

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