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SUMMARY:Identifying Barriers to Stop-Work Authority, Ultimate Work Authori
 ty, Safety Reporting, and Employee Participation in Offshore Energy Domain
DESCRIPTION:Austin Vaughn (Texas Tech University), Janet Okoroji (Louisian
 a State University), Ariana Medina and Changwon Son (Texas Tech University
 ), Tyree Mitchell (Louisiana State University), and Kerk Kee and Marshall 
 Watson (Texas Tech University)\n\nIn the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizo
 n explosion and oil spill in 2010, a joint investigation team comprised of
  the U.S. Coast Guard and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulatio
 n and Enforcement was assembled to investigate the incident. Findings from
  the investigation revealed that a combination of human error, equipment f
 ailure, and lack of regulations contributed to the disaster. This led to t
 he introduction of four new safety elements: Stop-work authority (SWA), Ul
 timate work authority (UWA), Reporting unsafe conditions and actions, and 
 Employee participation, or 'SURE' programs. Although the purpose of these 
 new safety programs was to promote proactive safety efforts for offshore e
 nergy facilities, concerns have been expressed toward limited implementati
 on of these programs in practice. Therefore, the current study aims to ide
 ntify barriers to the implementation of the SURE programs using a qualitat
 ive analysis of interviews with offshore workers, supervisors, and manager
 s. Preliminary analysis of these interviews suggests that offshore energy 
 workers face some barriers including conflicting safety cultures between c
 ooperative organizations, and fears of retaliation for delaying production
  or other offshore work. After identifying barriers to 'SURE' programs, we
  plan to develop and test new solutions for reporting unsafe conditions.\n
 \nTrack: Macroergonomics\n\n
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