PSA - ESREL 2011 paper: The impact of safety climate on risk perception on Norwegian and Danish production platforms

ABSTRACT: The study explores the impact of safety climate on subjective risk perception of personal and process accidents on Norwegian and Danish offshore production platforms. The Danish data consists of a survey sent to employees on all productions platform in the Danish sector in 2010. The Norwegian data was also gathered in 2010 and comes from the project “Trends in risk level—Norwegian shelf”. The results show that Norwegian offshore employees have more positive perceptions of safety and that the management in the Norwegian sector is more involved in safety compared to our Danish sample. Differences across groups are found for both personal and process risk. The Norwegian offshore employees indicate higher subjective risk perception both with regards to personal injuries and process accidents compared to Danish offshore employees.