Fred Størseth, Ranveig Kviseth Tinmannsvik, Eirik Albrechtsen, Tor Olav Grøtan, Ragnar Rosness, Maren Helene Rø, Ann Britt Skjerve, Knut Øien
2009-09-01
31 sider
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The overall objective of the Building Safety project, Building Safety in Petroleum Exploration and
Production in the Northern Regions, is to produce knowledge to build resilient operational organizations for
petroleum production in the northern regions, with the ability to prevent unwanted events through early
warnings/indications.

One of the research activities in Building Safety is entitled “Human and Organizational Contribution to
Resilience”, and has as its defined objective to develop knowledge concerning how humans and
organizations contribute to the resilience of a technological system; including knowledge on how to train
capacity for improvisation.

The report presents an overview and key findings from the following research tasks:

1. Literature review on resilience, Resilience Engineering, and improvisation
2. A theoretical study on the relationship between resilience, adaptation, and improvisation
3. An empirical study on successful recovery of high-risk incidents (in the petroleum industry)
4. Case specific advice (for operational organization of the Goliat field)

The Building Safety project is funded by The Research Council of Norway and Eni Norge AS.