License to intervene: the role of team adaptation in balancing structure and flexibility in offshore operations

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 18 - Trang 103-128 - 2019
Jan R. Jonassen1,2, Erik Hollnagel3,4
1Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Haugesund, Norway
2Høgskulen på Vestlandet, Bergen, Norway
3Patient Safety at Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden
4Nivå, Denmark

Tóm tắt

The study reported here reviewed and analyzed multi-team organizations in offshore operations to identify and understand the factors that are essential for good operation. It was found that the most prominent contribution to good operations was the balancing of structure and flexibility during work (anchor handling operations). The enabling factor towards this balance seems to be a process of team adaptation, including adjustments and corrections, when performing operations. The multi-teams operate in an open climate with a commonly accepted allowance to stop any safety-threatened operational activity. In practice, this gives the operational teams a “license” to intervene and adjust or adapt to suddenly occurring anomalies. The operations are in turn based on a period of planning and preparing. During the actual balancing, the teams relied on communication and information sharing, coordination and cooperation, and anticipation (proactive behavior) and empowerment/autonomy as effective enablers of team adaptation.

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