An analysis of audit reports shows that companies in the petroleum industry have challenges when it comes to integrating the follow-up of organisational and psychosocial risk factors into their corporate governance.
Risk assessments are often not performed and measures are accordingly not risk based. In addition, measures are largely not aimed at the actual organisation of the work, but are more individualised and reactive.
Systematic management of organisational and psychosocial risk factors, with measures that have a real risk-reducing effect, can yield positive results in a number of areas, such as better safety outcomes, less sickness absence, increased productivity and lower costs.
Increased attention to the work of monitoring the organisational and psychosocial working environment is therefore very important – both for the companies themselves, but also from a societal perspective.
Purpose
The report’s purpose is to strengthen the industry’s follow-up and management of psychosocial and organisational risk at group level. It aims to
help highlight available knowledge about the principles and criteria for following up psychosocial and organisational risk at group level
increase knowledge about methods and approaches to mapping and risk assessment promote the establishment of primary prevention work.
Group level in this context refers, for example, to a defined working group, discipline, workplace, unit or department (which, for example, has similar work processes, work tasks, management and interfaces).
The report has been produced by Safetec in collaboration with the University of Stavanger. The project group comprised specialists with both research experience and practical experience within the follow-up of the organisational and psychosocial working environment in the petroleum industry.