The Role of HR Strategy on Safety Culture and Psychological Stress among Employees in the Upstream Oil and Gas Companies: a Conceptual Review

Authors

  • Gehad Mohammed Ahmed Naji, AhmadShahrul Nizam Isha, Syed Mohamed Nasir Bin Syed Abd Rahman, Mohammed Alzoraiki, Al-BaraaAbdulrahman Al-Mekhlafi, Muhammad Shoaib Saleem, Osama Sharafaddin, Muhammad Ajmal

Abstract

Throughout history, organisations have neglected safety in the workplace to increase profits. Over the past thirty decades, the increase in the number of catastrophic events that have occurred in different fields has been drawing more attention to the importance of public safety initiatives. Examining and analysing past incidents help prevent future tragedies. As a result, a health and safety culture in the workplace will be improved. To effectively prevent future calamities and potentially disastrous incidents, organisations prioritise the development of a health and safety culture.

There must be effective therapy and close monitoring of psychological stress as a result of accidents. With this global phenomenon, all category of employees are effected. Together with its rising cost to the individual, industry and society as a whole, this trend has greatly increased awareness about the need for efficient and innovative approaches to manage stress. Workplace stress prevention has proven to be highly effective in fighting stress by confronting its roots and triggers, instead of simply managing its implications. Accordingly, this series of work papers has been designed to offer specific advice on how HR strategy prohibits mental stress and promotes a culture of safety at the workplace. In addition, this paper describes numerous preventive measures aimed at removing stress causes rather than dealing with their effects, and how these measures can become an integrated part of the organisation's essential growth and ultimately pay for themselves.

The upstream atmosphere is eventually distressing, because employees live and work in a limited place with no break for a long period of time. In a contained area and an environment that has the potential to quickly escalate hydrocarbon-related events, a wide range of dangerous duties will take place. Life upstream is being identified as hazardous, stressful and socially insulating to the atmosphere, characterised by excessive noise and interactions, in some rather packed and undesirable working conditions.

Keywords: Safety Culture, Psychological stress, HR strategies, upstream in oil and gas.

Published

2020-12-31

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