Psychosocial aspects of stress, health and safety on North Sea installations

Psychosocial aspects of work and health in the North Sea oil an gas industry

This document brings together summaries and key findings from a series of nine studies carried out by the University of Oxford with funding from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Offshore Safety Division, and published during the years 1996-2001 under the general title " Psychosocial aspects of work and health in the North Sea oil and gas industry ". The work covers a range of topics relati...

Psychosocial aspects of work and health in the North Sea oil and gas industry A survey of FPSO installations and comparison with platforms and drilling rigs

This report addresses three aspects of work and health among offshore personnel, drawing on data collected between 1995 and 2002. • A detailed survey of North Sea personnel (N=470) working on 'Floating Production, Storage and Offloading' (FPSO) installations in 2002 is reported. Significant differences were found across installations and across job types in a wide range of psychosocial measures...

PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF WORK AND HEALTH IN THE NORTH SEA OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY Parts III and IV

Psychosocial and stress-related aspects on ischemic heart disease

Objective: To study different aspects of ischemic heart disease (IHD) i.e. stress related risk factors, biochemical markers of stress, in particular the cortisol awakening response (CAR) and outcome in terms of health related quality of life (HRQoL). Methods: 72 myocardial infarction (AMI) patients took part in the HRQoL studies. From a subsample of a population-based cohort of Swedish adults 1...

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