The Norwegian oil and gas industry has undergone some turbulent years following the rapid decline in the oil price in 2014. There has been extensive debate on whether the cost-reductions in the industry has led to higher risk level, especially on the offshore installations. The Petroleum Safety Auth...

Car ferries may face severe consequences during an emergency at sea. There is a high potential of human losses if not proper crisis management has been carried out. During the last 10 years, ferry crews have been reduced, and the conflict regarding manning and crisis management between ferry crews a...

The Automatic Identification System (AIS), fitted on most ships today, is primarily used for real time ship monitoring. This paper illustrates how stored AIS data can be used to construct activity data that can be used to normalize accident statistics, to turn recorded numbers of accidents into acci...

In this paper we address the institutional context of the police response during the 22 July terror attacks in Norway. Our analysis shows how institutionalized informal practices, established over time, influenced the police response during the attacks. The response presented challenges in terms of ...

The accident levels in helicopter transportation vary between geographical regions and types of operations. In this paper, we develop some hypotheses regarding the factors that may explain this variation. The aim of this paper is to improve safety in helicopter transportation through better understa...

We discuss how cultural boundaries between groups and organizations can affect societal safety. Societal safety is an issue that challenges institutional structures and requires coordination and collaboration among a diversity of groups and agencies toward an intangible goal. We examine three cases ...

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Norway on 22/7 2011, numerous public reports have been issued in order to describe and explain the events and make recommendations to improve the ability of the Norwegian society to withstand and manage future terrorist acts. The Official Norwegian Report...