Collaborative Modeling with Fuzzy Cognitive Maps: A Novel Approach to Achieving Safety Culture

Description: Researchers plan to develop and test a scenario-planning toolkit that oil and gas industry stakeholders can use to explore the factors that strengthen or detract from their organization’s safety culture. They will consider how these factors can be modeled collaboratively, whether modeling can address uncertainty about these factors and their causal relationships, if this exercise helps participants understand what bolsters and hinders safety culture, and whether their participation results in actionable outcomes. Researchers hope this project will produce a modeling approach that organizations can use to develop context-specific safety culture training that is tailored to their unique needs.

Funding Cycle: Safer Offshore Energy Systems 2
Funding Organization: National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine: Gulf Research Program

Developing a Systems-Theoretic, Cross-Disciplinary, Scenario-Based Approach to Reducing Risk in Offshore Oil and Gas Operations

Description: Building on work that characterizes accidents as processes that involve complex interactions among social and technical factors, the project director plans to incorporate additional managerial, regulatory, environmental, and community preparedness factors into her new safety engineering approach. She proposes to strengthen cross-disciplinary efforts to prevent accidents such as Deepwater Horizon by creating tools that non-technical stakeholders can use to contribute relevant environmental and social knowledge to scenario planning, preventative design, and accident response activities.

Funding Cycle: Safer Offshore Energy Systems 2
Funding Organization: National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine: Gulf Research Program

Factoring in the Human in Offshore Operations: Forces for Scenario Planning

Description: Researchers plan to explore how fatigue affects workers’ performance during simulated offshore drilling scenarios. They also plan to identify which methods drillers would be most likely to adopt to reduce fatigue during their shifts. By characterizing drillers’ cognitive performance across shifts and capturing the physiological impact of maintaining performance, this project could help planners develop scenarios to prevent or mitigate human (or systems) error that align more closely with workers’ capabilities.

Funding Cycle: Safer Offshore Energy Systems 2
Funding Organization: National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine: Gulf Research Program

Virtual Reality Offshore Operations Training Infrastructure: Enhancing Expert Containment, Decision Making, and Risk Communications

Description: The project team plans to develop training modules to evaluate and strengthen workers’ decision-making skills by developing tools and modules that simulate loss of well control scenarios in the offshore oil and gas environment. These modules could enhance process safety in offshore oil and gas operations by helping operators, training organizations, and regulators assess and manage preventable risks related to human factors.

Funding Cycle: Safer Offshore Energy Systems 2
Funding Organization: National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine: Gulf Research Program

iEMSs 2018 Proceedings: Exploratory Participatory Modeling with FCM to Overcome Uncertainty

iEMSs 2018 Proceedings: Open Source Tool in R Language to Estimate the Inference of the Fuzzy Cognitive Map in environmental decision making

FCM Python Package

Inference of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs)

Participatory Modeling

Real-Time Eye-Tracking System to Evaluate and Enhance Situation Awareness and Process Safety in Drilling Operations. Paper presented at the IADC/SPE, Fort Worth, TX.

Enhancing Situation Awareness and Process Safety in Offshore Drilling Operations: Applications of Eye-Tracking system. Paper presented at the Offshore Technology Conference, Houston TX.

Integrating Human Factors into Petroleum Engineering’s Curriculum: Essential Training for Students. Society of Petroleum Engineers

Analysis of Eye Tracking Data to Measure Situational Awareness in Offshore Drilling Operations

Using Content Analysis through Simulation-Base Training for Offshore Drilling Operations: Implications for Process Safety

Developing a Cross-Disciplinary, Scenario-Based Training Approach Integrated with Eye Tracking Data Collection to Enhance Situational Awareness in Offshore Oil and Gas Operations