Risk governance of offshore oil and gas operations / edited by Preben Hempel Lindøe, Michael Baram, Ortwin Renn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lindøe, Preben Hempel, editor.

Baram, Michael S., editor.

Renn, Ortwin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Offshore oil industry--Risk management.

Offshore oil industry.

Offshore gas industry--Risk management.

Offshore gas industry.

Offshore oil industry--Safety measures.

Offshore gas industry--Safety measures.

Offshore oil industry--Government policy.

Offshore gas industry--Government policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 434 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Risk Governance of Offshore Oil & Gas Operations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book evaluates and compares risk regulation and safety management for offshore oil and gas operations in the United States, United Kingdom, Norway and Australia. It provides an interdisciplinary approach with legal, technological and sociological perspectives on efforts to assess and prevent major accidents and improve safety performance. Presented in three parts, it begins with a review of the factors involved in designing, implementing and enforcing a regulatory regime for industrial safety. It then evaluates the four regimes exploring the contextual factors that influence their design and implementation, their reliance on industrial expertise and standards and the use of performance indicators. Finally the book assesses the resilience of the Norwegian regime, its capacity to keep pace with new technologies and emerging risks, respond to near miss incidents, encourage safety culture, incorporate vested rights of labor, and perform inspection and self-audit functions. This book is relevant for those in government, business and academia, and anyone involved in offshore safety issues.

Contents:

A Generic Model for Risk Governance : Concept and Application to Technological Installations / Ortwin Renn

Modes of Risk Regulation for Prevention of Major Industrial Accidents / Michael Baram and Preben H. Lindøe

Values and Norms : a Basis for a Safety Culture / Kathryn Mearns

Optimising Offshore Health and Safety Inspections : How the Markets Could Help / Emre Emre Usenmez

Safety regulation on the Norwegian Continental Shelf / Knut Kaasen

Health and Safety Regulation on the UKCS : Evolution and Future Prospects / John Paterson

Preventing Accidents in Offshore Oil and Gas : the U.S. Regulatory Regime / Michael Baram

A New Policy Direction in Australian Offshore Safety Regulation / Jan Hayes

Safety Indicators Used by Authorities in the Petroleum Industry of UK, US and Norway / Helene Cecilie Blakstad

Governmental Enforced Self-Regulation : The Norwegian Case / Paul Bang and Olaf Thuestad

Contested Terrains in Risk Regulation : Legitimacy Challenges in Implementation Processes / Jacob Kringen

Boxing and Dancing : Tripartite Collaboration as an Integral Part of a Regulatory Regime / Ragnar Rosness and Ulla Forseth

Emergent Risk and New Technologies / Ole Andreas Engen

Near Major Accidents : a Challenge for Regulator and the Regulated / Ole Andreas Engen

Inspections, Independence and Intelligence / Helge Ryggvik

Advancing Robust Regulation : Reflections and Lessons to be Learned / Andrew Hale.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-46105-7

1-139-89108-1

1-107-45911-7

1-107-51526-2

1-107-46491-9

1-107-46840-X

1-107-47201-6

1-139-19830-0

1-107-47304-7

OCLC:

862614623