Capability maturity models for offshore organisational management

Area of Science:

• Occupational Safety and Health
• Risk Management
• Organizational Behavior

Background:

• UK safety regulator's goal-setting impacts health and safety risk management.
• Traditional safety assurance methods (risk analysis, formal safety assessments) may not achieve desired safety improvements in the offshore industry.
• Alternative approaches are being explored to enhance safety performance.

Purpose of the Study:

• To develop a Design Safety Capability Maturity Model (CMM).
• To outline key processes for safety achievement, maturity levels, and scoring methods.
• To explore the relationship between CMM, regulatory mechanisms, and risk-based decision-making.

Main Methods:

• Development of a Capability Maturity Model (CMM) tailored for design safety.
• Definition of critical safety processes, maturity levels, and scoring methodologies.
• Analysis of CMM's integration with existing regulatory frameworks and risk assessment.

Main Results:

• The developed Design Safety CMM provides a structured approach to assessing and improving safety capabilities.
• The model integrates organizational behavior considerations early in the design phase.
• CMM shows potential for enhancing environmental risk management alongside safety.

Conclusions:

• The Design Safety CMM offers a promising alternative to traditional methods for improving offshore safety.
• It addresses organizational behavior and can be applied during the early design stages.
• CMM has the potential to support regulatory compliance and improve risk-based decision-making and environmental risk management.