Offshore Safety Awareness Training System

ABSTRACT

Safety is vital in any industry, including the offshore sector, which is classified as a major hazard industry. Health, Safet y and the Environment (HSE) identified that the prob a bility of accidents is high while working on the offshore sectors where it will exposed workers to many hazardous work activities. The appropriate measures to prevent acc i dent in this sectors must be laid out clearly. This paper is to identify the effectiveness of safety awareness campaign and the conti- nuity of the awareness among the workers to prevent injuries at of fshore. To achieve this, we have identified the level of awareness and propose a guideline on areas of improvement. Prior of embarking to offshore, staff w e re exposed to safety awareness pr o gram for four weeks. A f ter the program, we started with the pretest to all staff. They were posted off- shore for 6 weeks. Within the period, the performance awareness of each staff is monitored through observation and interview. During the f inal week, the posttest questionnaire were administered to all staff. Two instruments were used for the quantitative data collection, which are Unsafe Act Unsafe Condition (UAUC) card; and Behavior Observation Tool (BOT) card. Questio n naire data were analy zed quantitatively. Paired - sample t - test was used for analyzing pre and post result. The results show that the mean was increased. Recent studies on the safety briefing highlighted several significant changes in terms of e m ployee understanding toward safe ty. Safety awareness training has been introduced in the new safety briefing prior to of f shore mobilization.