
Torgeir Kolstø HaavikNTNU Social Research · Studio Apertura
Torgeir Kolstø Haavik
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Evacuation of people due to the risk of natural or man-made hazard events has been a concurrent part of human existence since our conception as societies. Yet, as an effect of anthropogenic climate change, we are seeing an increased frequency and variance of these types of events and experiencing their cascading effects on society, such as more eva...
In this article, we present the results of our study of knowledge in the actor-network of snow avalanche forecasters and observers in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Our study aimed to understand how observers and forecasters make sense of snow conditions and snow avalanche risks. To do so, we conducted empirical investigations, which included interviews w...
In 2015, a new risk definition was presented by the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA-N) as a petroleum regulation update and ‘rolled out’ in the PSA-N organisation and the oil and gas industry as a regulatory guideline, changing the definition of risk from ‘the combination of probabilities and consequences’ to ‘the consequences of an activ...
We discuss what it is with representations of safety that makes them so powerful, and what is at stake when representations travel across contexts and scales. The discussion uses the sharp end/blunt end metaphor as a central case.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a creeping and slow-burning crisis, characterized by extreme uncertainty, ambiguity and complexity and presenting and unprecedented need for response across sectors and political-administrative levels. While there has been an explosion of research papers into the national strategies for handling the pandemic, empirical publ...
The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis that is “creeping” in its onset and “slow-burning” in its duration. It is characterized by extreme uncertainty, ambiguity, and complexity, presenting an unprecedented need for response across sectors and political-administrative levels. While there has been an explosion of research papers into the national strategi...
Navigating a ship is a complex task that requires close interaction between navigators and technology available on the ship’s bridge. The quality of this interaction depends on human and organisational factors, but also on technological design. This is recognized by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) through the SOLAS V/15 regulation tha...
This chapter explores the potentials for organisational resilience stemming from digitalized simulations. The point of departure is experiences with the case of endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR), in which established health care professions (surgeons and radiologists) develop new patterns of collaboration through simulations based on digital repr...
Digital transformation turns critical infrastructures into cyber-physical systems, introducing unprecedented levels of complexity and vulnerability. As the evidence of surprise and shocks involving cyber-physical systems is high and rising, concepts of resilience are increasingly enrolled in discourses around vulnerability in critical infrastructur...
This article explores what complementary perspectives Science and Technology Studies and in particular Actor Network Theory may bring to Safety Science beyond what comes out of traditional comparisons between highly profiled theories/perspectives of Normal Accident Theory (NAT), High Reliability Organisations (HRO) Resilience Engineering (RE) and S...
This article reports from a project introducing a virtual reality simulator with patient-specific input for endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) into a surgical environment at a university hospital in Norway during 2016–2019. The project includes acquisition of the simulator, training of personnel, and a mapping of the effects. We followed the proce...
This reflection piece explores societal resilience as an emerging field in safety science research. Based on the growing interest for safety in a societal context – and the natural continuation of the expanding scope of each of the phases in the ‘three ages of safety’ – societal resilience is portrayed as a fourth age of safety. While safety scienc...
Seamanship has been associated with certain individual skills and special knowledge related to navigation, operation and safety of sea-going vessels, but also to expected work ethics and obligations to fellow seamen. The term is also used in international shipping regulations, including the ability to make sound judgements.
This paper explores how...
Introduction: Rehearsing endovascular aortic aneurysm repair on patient-specific data is recent within virtual reality simulation and opens up new possibilities for operators to prepare for complex procedures. This study evaluated the feasibility of patient-specific rehearsal (PsR) and assessed operators’ appraisal of the VIST-LAB simulator from Me...
Relevance and truth of theories is maintained only through hard work. This work may involve modification, redescription and recontextualisation. During many years of dedication to research and practice in complex sociotechnical systems – including aviation, oil&gas, surgery and shipping – the safety literary canon has been a faithful companion offe...
p>This article builds on long-term, ongoing studies of energy efficiency governance, and reports from one recent case study of a multi-use area development combining local heating/cooling and district heating. We approach the subject matter with a particular interest for the heterogeneous substances and processes at play in realising an engineering...
In this article we explore the phenomenon of airmanship in commercial passenger flights, in a context of increasing standardisation of procedures and technologies. Through observation studies in cockpits and interviews we have studied pilots' practices and how they relate to the larger system of procedures and the technical environment. We find tha...
Learning from successful operations has received less attention than learning from accidents and near misses, both among practitioners and researchers. The article reports intermediate results from a project aimed at reducing this gap. We discuss (1) criteria to identify an operation as successful with regard to safety, (2) implications concerning...
This paper is intended to highlight some of the challenges of regulating integrated energy solutions in buildings, and so provide a better basis for both regulation and initiating innovation processes related to energy efficiency. The paper is based on a mapping of regulatory and incentive schemes and two extended case studies consisting of in dept...
This special issue invites to a debate to elaborate on differences and similarities between the perspectives of High Reliability Organisation (HRO) and Resilience Engineering (RE). Such a debate may be conducted along both essentialistic and pragmatic lines, and we suggest that the latter approach is potentially more interesting and fruitful than t...
There is a general trend of more distributed work configurations in many work domains, examples being air traffic management and telemedicine. As the offshore petroleum industry conquers increasingly remote and harsh areas, there is a pressure towards lower offshore staffing and more sensor-based onshore management. This introduces new challenges o...
In Norway, the health sector has recently been looking to the petroleum industry for inspiration with respect to innovative solutions for telemedicine and patient safety. In this article, the potential for and challenges associated with augmented reality (AR) tools and practices in surgery and surgical telemedicine are investigated. Work practices...
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...
Decision making is a central component in the management of safety-critical operations. Some attempts have been made to employ Quantitative Risk Analysis as input to such decisions. Although adequate for long-term planning where the average risk is the relevant parameter, such systems tend to fall short in operational and instantaneous decisions wh...
This article explores the philosophical foundations of a selection of safety science approaches through investigating the modus operandi of their development and use. It explicitly addresses the importance of distinguishing ontology from epistemology, a claim expressed in the call for papers for this special issue. The importance of rigorous method...
This article explores the nature of sociotechnical work in safety-critical operations as it unfolds in settings that are characterised by multidisciplinary interpretative work in high-tech environments, where direct access to the phenomena of interest is restricted and the dependence on sensor data and model support is high. The type of work that i...
This paper elaborates on situatedness as an empirical phenomenon in computer-mediated settings. It is based on studies of petroleum engineers and how they work with digital sensor data. We show how their work practices are born out of a history of constitutive entanglement with specific types of sensors, the data they produce, and the information s...
This paper argues that a participatory approach directly involving employees in safety barrier analysis can provide ‘added value’ to traditional barrier analyses. Employee participation (EP) could motivate employees to use their knowledge, suggest improvement measures and express their concerns. EP has not received much attention from safety resear...
This article discusses how data are made to represent subsurface phenomena in petroleum production. Drawing on studies of the subsurface disciplines in an oil company, and the multitude of sensor data employed there, we suggest that sensor data as representational artifacts are punctuated along three axes. We refer to this as spatial, temporal and...
Lack of shared understanding is frequently found to be the main cause when accidents are investigated. Still, few studies
explicitly explore and document the causal effects of shared understanding in successful work. Thus, the attribution of insufficient
shared understanding as an accident cause lacks the substantiation of shared understanding as a...
The way sociotechnical systems are conceptually understood influences the result of the safety assessments of such systems. In the literature on the safety of sociotechnical systems, the starting point for the descriptions is often the system components, while the relations are seen as resulting from these components. In this article, it is argued...
Integrated operations (IO) is an operating mode in the offshore oil and gas industry that is expected to lead to safer, faster and better operations. This article presents an analysis of the anticipated impacts of increased instrumentation on the safety of drilling operations. The instrumentation is related to the change process of IO, and is exemp...
In the petroleum industry, new technologies and work processes are currently being developed as an innovation strategy for
better, faster and safer drilling. In this article, some features of today’s work processes that contribute to successful
operations are presented and discussed. The articulation work involved in handling the transient complexi...
Taking effective measure in the area of improvement and change management work in relation to HSE (Health, Safety and Environment) is an organizational challenge that requires effective collaboration across disciplines and interfaces. Shared responsibility and consequently collective learning is a prerequisite for improvement of single activities,...
Taking effective measure in the area of improvement and change management work in relation to HSE (Health, Safety and Environment) is an organizational challenge that requires effective collaboration across disciplines and interfaces. Shared responsibility and consequently collective learning is a prerequisite for improvement of single activities,...
This report discusses the roles that model based representations of an oil reservoir play and may play in operative
interdisciplinary work processes. Based on a selection of expert-interviews, we discuss how models are used in an operational context, and specifically try to understand the limitations of (existing) model based tools in supporting in...