New Tools, Old Tasks ─ Safety Implications of New Technologies and Work Processes for Integrated Operations in the Petroleum Industry

"New Tools, Old Tasks explores how Integrated Operations (IO) will influence the safety of offshore drilling operations. The book is based on several years of practical experience combined with a research study on the safety of IO within the drilling domain. The book explores how safety can be understood in the change process of Integrated Operations, and provides recommendations for how IO may be developed and implemented in a way that will benefit both safety and efficiency"-Provided by publisher.

Torgeir K. Haavik is a researcher at NTNU Social Research in Trondheim, Norway. He holds a master's degree in geological engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (1995), a master's degree in social geography from NTNU (2003) and a PhD in the sociology of risk and safety from NTNU (2012). His professional experience includes more than three years working as a mud-logging geologist on offshore drilling rigs. He has published scientific articles in the topic of Integrated Operations and safety in the journals Cognition, Technology and Work and Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management.