Insurance and Indemnity Problems in Offshore Drilling Operations

Safety of dynamic positioning operations on mobile offshore drilling units

Withering on the vine: the decline of indemnity health insurance.

Psychosocial burden among offshore drilling platform employees.

Conditions of work on offshore drilling platforms are particularly hard due to extreme environmental situations created both by nature and technological processes. Oil drilling workers employed on the open sea are potentially exposed to permanently high stress. Apart from the obvious objective factors affecting drilling platform employees, a great role in the general work-related stress level i...

Can an Optimal Insurance Contract Violate the Principle of Indemnity?

The principle of indemnity is well-accepted in the field of insurance and is also commonly assumed in the literature of optimal contract design. However, should this principle be imposed on all insurance contracts without exceptions? Does there exist an insurance contract that is optimal for both the insurer and the insured even as the principle of indemnity is violated? The answer is yes. This...

Stress, fatigue, situation awareness and safety in offshore drilling crews

Please cite this article in press as: Sneddon, A., dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2012.05.027 Drilling for oil and gas on offshore installations is a hazardous occupation, and requires personnel to maintain high levels of work situation awareness (WSA). This paper presents a self-report scale developed to measure the WSA of drilling personnel, and examines the influence of the performance shaping fa...