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Ground-breaking research supports technology adoption. [News article] (2018)
Digital Artefact
ROBERTS, R. and FLIN, R. 2018. Ground-breaking research supports technology adoption. [News article]. Net Zero Technology Centre [online]. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/487vk23p

The Oil and Gas Technology Centre and Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University (RGU) have launched a new research programme to identify the behavioural barriers to successful technology adoption and deployment on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), creating... Read More about Ground-breaking research supports technology adoption. [News article].

Human factors in safety management: safety culture, safety leadership and non-technical skills. (2018)
Book Chapter
FLIN, R. and AGNEW, C. 2018. Human factors in safety management: safety culture, safety leadership and non-technical skills. In Samman, S.N. (ed.) Human factors and ergonomics for the Gulf Cooperation Council: processes, technologies and practices. Boca Raton: CRC Press [online], chapter 3, pages 43-64. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1201/b21145-3

Human factors/ergonomics aspects of safety management are wide-ranging and it is now recognized that these are essential for effective risk control, as well as performance efficiencies and worker well-being. This chapter focuses on just three of thes... Read More about Human factors in safety management: safety culture, safety leadership and non-technical skills..

Drillers' cognitive skills monitoring task. (2018)
Journal Article
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

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' c... Read More about Drillers' cognitive skills monitoring task..

Enhancing safety performance: non-technical skills and a modicum of chronic unease. (2017)
Book Chapter
FLIN, R. 2017. Enhancing safety performance: non-technical skills and a modicum of chronic unease. In Bieder C., Gilbert C., Journé B., Laroche H. (eds.) Beyond safety training. SpringerBriefs in applied sciences and technology. Cham: Springer [online], pages 45-58. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65527-7_6

Current debates on professionalism and safety cover a range of interpretative challenges and theoretical perspectives, as the workshop organized by FonCSI in 2015 revealed. One avenue for consideration was to address the question of the role of profe... Read More about Enhancing safety performance: non-technical skills and a modicum of chronic unease..

How to recognise a kick: a cognitive task analysis of drillers' situation awareness during well operations. (2016)
Journal Article
ROBERTS, R., FLIN, R. and CLELAND, J. 2016. How to recognise a kick: a cognitive task analysis of drillers' situation awareness during well operations. Journal of loss prevention in the process industries [online], 43, pages 503-513. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2016.07.003

Purpose: The ability to monitor and detect anomalous changes in an oil well is a fundamental aspect of an offshore driller's job, so as to maintain well control, the safety of the surrounding rig and minimize risk. Drillers are required to have a hig... Read More about How to recognise a kick: a cognitive task analysis of drillers' situation awareness during well operations..

Everything was fine: an analysis of the drill crew's situation awareness on Deepwater Horizon. (2015)
Journal Article
ROBERTS, R., FLIN, R. and CLELAND, J. 2015. Everything was fine: an analysis of the drill crew's situation awareness on Deepwater Horizon. Journal of loss prevention in the process industries [online], 38, pages 87-100. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2015.08.008

Purpose: Investigation reports into the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig disaster identified issues with the drill crew's situation awareness (SA). The aim was to (1) apply the Driller's Situation Awareness (DSA) model to the cognitive data extracted f... Read More about Everything was fine: an analysis of the drill crew's situation awareness on Deepwater Horizon..

Car driver attitudes, perceptions of social norms and aggressive driving behaviour towards cyclists. (2015)
Journal Article
FRUHEN, L.S. and FLIN, R. 2015. Car driver attitudes, perceptions of social norms and aggressive driving behaviour towards cyclists. Accident analysis and prevention [online], 83, pages 162-170. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2015.07.003

The interaction of car drivers and cyclists is one of the main causes of cycle incidents. The role of attitudes and social norms in shaping car drivers' aggressive behaviour towards cyclists, is not well understood and merits investigation. A sample... Read More about Car driver attitudes, perceptions of social norms and aggressive driving behaviour towards cyclists..

Applications for naturalistic decision-making. (2015)
Journal Article
GORE, J., FLIN, R., STANTON, N. and WONG, B.L.W. 2015. Applications for naturalistic decision-making. Journal of occupational and organizational psychology [online], 88(2): special section: applications of naturalistic decision making, pages 223-230. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12121

This guest editorial introduces the special section of the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology 'Applications of Naturalistic Decision Making.' Contributing to the aim of the special section to highlight applications of NDM research... Read More about Applications for naturalistic decision-making..

Staying in the zone: offshore drillers' situation awareness. (2014)
Journal Article
ROBERTS, R., FLIN, R. and CLELAND, J. 2014. Staying in the zone: offshore drillers' situation awareness. Human factors: the journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society [online], 57(4), pages 573-590. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0018720814562643

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the cognitive components required for offshore drillers to develop and maintain situation awareness (SA) while controlling subsea hydrocarbon wells. Background: SA issues are often identified as contri... Read More about Staying in the zone: offshore drillers' situation awareness..

Staying in the zone: the cognitive components associated with offshore drillers' situation awareness. (2014)
Journal Article
ROBERTS, R.C., FLIN, R. and CLELAND, J. 2014. Staying in the zone: the cognitive components associated with offshore drillers' situation awareness. Proceedings of the human factors and ergonomics society annual meeting [online], 58(1): papers of the 58th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society annual meeting 2014 (HFES 2014), 27-31 October, 2014, San Diego, USA, pages 270-274. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/1541931214581056

Situation Awareness (SA) issues are often identified as contributing factors to drilling incidents, most recently in the Deepwater Horizon blowout. Two studies aimed to identify the cognitive components required for offshore drillers to develop and m... Read More about Staying in the zone: the cognitive components associated with offshore drillers' situation awareness..

Non-technical skills of the scrub practitioner: the SPLINTS system. (2014)
Journal Article
FLIN, R., MITCHELL, L. and MCLEOD, B. 2014. Non-technical skills of the scrub practitioner: the SPLINTS system. ORNAC journal [online], 32(3), pages 33-38. Available from: https://view.flipdocs.com/?ID=10020446_247797

This article describes the nontechnical skill set, and behavioural rating tool, for scrub practitioners/nurses (e.g. perioperative registered nurses; operating room technicians) known as the Scrub Practitioners' List of Intraoperative Non Technical S... Read More about Non-technical skills of the scrub practitioner: the SPLINTS system..

Senior charge nurses’ leadership behaviours in relation to hospital ward safety: a mixed method study. (2013)
Journal Article
AGNEW, C. and FLIN, R. 2014. Senior charge nurses' leadership behaviours in relation to hospital ward safety: a mixed method. International journal of nursing studies [online], 51(5), pages 768-780. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2013.10.001

Background: High standards of quality and patient safety in hospital wards cannot be achieved without the active role of the nursing leaders that manage these units. Previous studies tended to focus on the leadership behaviours of nurses in relation... Read More about Senior charge nurses’ leadership behaviours in relation to hospital ward safety: a mixed method study..

Skills, knowledge and senior managers’ demonstrations of safety commitment. (2013)
Journal Article
FRUHEN, L.S., MEARNS, K.J., FLIN, R. and KIRWAN, B. 2014. Skills, knowledge and senior managers' demonstrations of safety commitment. Safety science [online], 69, pages 29-36. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2013.08.024

Senior managers’ safety commitment is emphasised in the safety literature as a crucial influence on organisational safety. Yet there is little understanding of the characteristics that underpin their ability to engage in behaviours that demonstrate s... Read More about Skills, knowledge and senior managers’ demonstrations of safety commitment..

First line supervisors in the offshore oil and gas industry. (1998)
Thesis
CARNEGIE, D. 1998. First line supervisors in the offshore oil and gas industry. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

The offshore oil and gas industry has created significant wealth for the UK economy; approximately 250 billion Great British Pounds (GBP) since oil was discovered under the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS) of which approximately 70 billion GBP... Read More about First line supervisors in the offshore oil and gas industry..