

EXPERT ASSESSMENTS IN DECISION MAKING: RISKS AND SAFETY
This chapter overviews the problems of increasing the efficiency of safety and health management of shift workers in offshore oil and gas industry through the prism of the human factor. It studies the specific features of the environment, hazards and risks, working conditions and professional activities in the offshore sector. The fields of safety and health management of personnel employed on offshore oil platforms are highlighted. It is shown that, despite the sufficient elaboration of the knowledge base on health hazards and mechanisms for their elimination in the traditional system of occupational safety and health protection, the safety and health issues related directly to the human factor have not explored so far. The state-of-the-art of the problem of personnel safety and health in the context of the human factor is investigated. The concept of a human-centered approach to personnel safety and health management is proposed, implying the inclusion of employees in the control loop as the main component in their contextual environment. This involves continuous remote monitoring of vital health indicators of employees and, at the same time, parameters of the context-dependent environment of each of them, and an expert assessment of the deviation of these parameters from the norm. Based on IoT technologies and e-health solutions, a functional model of a system for continuous remote monitoring of the health of workers during the period of their shift on offshore oil platforms is developed. The architecture and principles of functioning of a distributed intelligent health management system for shift workers in the offshore industry are proposed.
Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Head of Department
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