Drillers' cognitive skills monitoring task.

Roberts, Ruby Clyde; Flin, Rhona; Cleland, Jennifer; Urquhart, Jim

Abstract

Drilling incidents have emphasized that offshore drillers require a high level of cognitive skills, including situation awareness and decision making, to maintain safe and efficient well control. Although a number of tools for supporting operators' cognition are available in other high-risk industries, there is no specific tool for drilling. We developed a prototype monitoring task simulating drilling scenarios, Drillers' Situation Awareness Task, with drilling experts and piloted with 14 drilling personnel. Preliminary results suggest that it is viable as a tool for examining drillers' cognition and has the potential for training and formatively assessing cognitive skills in drilling.

Citation

ROBERTS, R.C., FLIN, R., CLELAND, J. and URQUHART, J. 2019. Drillers' cognitive skills monitoring task. Ergonomics in design [online], 27(2), pages 13-20. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/1064804617744713

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 30, 2017
• Online Publication Date: May 10, 2018
• Publication Date: Apr 1, 2019
• Deposit Date: May 18, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: May 18, 2018
• Journal: Ergonomics in design
• Print ISSN: 1064-8046
• Electronic ISSN: 2169-5083
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 13-20
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1064804617744713
• Keywords: Drilling; Cognitive skills; Situation awareness; Simulation; Computer tasks; Expertise; Cognition; Training; Oil riggers; Deepwater Horizon; Workload; Skill development
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2926