Tor Erik Evjemo

• MSc, PhD
• Principal Consultant at Det Norske Veritas

In late 2018 the Norwegian frigate KNM Helge Ingstad collided with an oil tanker sailing on an intersecting course. The accident occurred in an area where ship traffic was monitored by a shipping control centre. Afterwards, critical questions were asked about how such an accident could occur at all, including the publication of an audio log where o...

Purpose: The current study examines the contribution of formalised planning to ensure success in drilling operations seen in the light of organizational learning theory. Methodology: The applied methodology is observational fieldwork including interviews, document studies and informal talks on a drilling rig on the Norwegian continental shelf condu...

This report is based on work done for the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) with the theme of human-centred design and human-machine interfaces in the development and implementation of autonomous systems. The report summarises the review and findings. Through the project, we have seen that automation has generally been successful where it has...

The inland helicopter industry in Norway is a heterogenous industry with a relatively high accident rate. This paper presents results from a questionnaire distributed to pilots of inland helicopters in Norway. We wanted to investigate which factors that relate to the likelihood that pilots had experienced something that led to-or could have led to-...

Greater connectivity is transforming critical infrastructures profoundly. One specific aspect enabled by connectivity are remote operations, which allow for the provision of services difficult to provide in a direct capacity, physically (e.g., due to cost or resource availability). Domains of applications are very diverse, e.g.: industry, public se...

Aviation is an industry with a very good safety record, something that the technological development in recent decades has contributed to. However, the overall accident decline does not apply to aircraft accidents associated with loss of control, which is often linked with increasing degrees of aircraft automation. Aviation automation can help redu...

The aviation industry is a highly competitive industry having experienced major changes during the last decades, i.e., low-cost carriers and new ways of organizing work. Industry characteristics are high CO2 emissions and a continuous need to maintain overall safety. Innovation in the industry should therefore be able to improve its economic perfor...

This paper discusses state of the art of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), drones (unmanned aerial vehicle-UAV's) and control infrastructure. The focus has been to explore risks, vulnerabilities and safe use of UAS in industrial operations. The use of UAS has been in rapid expansion in governmental areas (monitoring, military applications) and in th...

Norsk luftfart er internasjonal og blir påvirket av globale bransjetrender og teknologisk utvikling. Luftfartstilsynet poengterer at flysikkerhetsarbeid fremover vil innebære å opprettholde dagens positive sikkerhetsstatistikk i en bransje som vil oppleve stadig vekst i årene fremover. For å møte fremtidens krav til miljø og sikkerhet er man avheng...

The helicopter safety study initiated in 2016 is the last in a series of comprehensive studies conducted on the Norwegian continental shelf. The first study (HSS-1) covered the period 1966–1990, the second (HSS-2) covered the period 1990–1998 and the third (HSS-3) covered the period 1999–2009. The current study (HSS-3b) covers the period from 2009...

Helikoptersikkerhetsstudien som ble satt i gang i 2016 er den siste i en serie store studier som har blitt gjennomført på norsk sokkel. Den første (HSS-1) dekket perioden 1966–1990, den andre (HSS-2) tok for seg perioden 1990–1998 og den tredje (HSS-3) tok for seg perioden 1999–2009. Den siste studien (HSS-3b) er en begrenset oppdatering av HSS-3 s...

Nurse calls in a hospital can constitute either positive or negative (wanted or unwanted) interruptions depending on various factors. This study aims to understand nurses' strategies in facilitating the reception of wanted nurse calls and the restriction of unwanted nurse calls. Applying a resilience engineering perspective, nurses' performance var...

Telemedicine has been common practice in the petroleum industry for decades, first being characterized by telephonic contacts between the offshore platforms and the onshore medical support, and today including videoconference and digital medical devices. In this paper we present work drawing on a systemic perspective meaning that the telemedicine s...

This paper reports a study of sensemaking in operating theatres. We explored the role of sensemaking processes in the safe and efficient performance of surgical procedures. The study is based on observations, semi-structured interviews, and informal conversations with surgeons, anaesthetists, operating nurses, and anaesthetic nurses. We found that...

We studied the role of sensemaking processes in the safe and efficient performance of surgical procedures. The study is based on observations, semi-structured interviews and informal conversations with surgeons, anaesthetists, operating nurses and anaesthetic nurses. The members of the operating team paid great attention to what might happen during...

The present report summarizes the findings in the Project “Future of Telemedicine in O&G” regarding the capabilities and resilience work. In this report we will briefly describe these two complementary approaches and how they were applied in the analysis of the cases. The offshore healthcare services in the O&G industry rely on telemedicine facilit...

Introduction Nurses’ work in hospital departments is highly collaborative and includes communication with a variety of actors. To further support nurses’ communications, wireless phones, on which nurses receive both nurse calls and ordinary phone calls, have been introduced. However, while they ensure high availability among the mobile nurses, thes...

This paper presents an ongoing work in on the future of telemedicine in O&G. There has been a huge development in the use of video consultation between remote patients and the doctors. We believe the future of telemedicine in O&G will add to this workflow by investigating how we can transfer visual medical data between "offshore nurses" and "medica...

Patients rely on the nurse call system when in need of nurses' assistance, while nurses rely on the nurse call system to coordinate work. In order to handle the highly mobile nature of nurses' work, a wireless nurse call system has been introduced at a Norwegian hospital. In light of findings from previous research that identify challenges associat...