ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN SAFETY CLIMATE AND EMOTIONAL-REACTIONS TO PLATFORM MOVEMENTS ONBOARD AN OFFSHORE INSTALLATION

The present study focuses on emotional reactions to platform movements onboard an offshore installation, and to investigate to what degree t he safety climate onboard the installation had impact on such reaction s. The sample consisted of 179 respondents, taking all three work shif ts into consideration, representing all fields of work onboard. In gen eral, emotional reactions to platform movements were not associated wi th the safety climate. The exception was instrumental protection. Howe ver, this tendency was to some extent altered when controlling for var ious job related and demographic variables. Gender, marital status and offshore experience promoted a moderate relationship between social s upport and emotional reactions. Moderate associations between emotiona l reactions and safety involvement were promoted by personnel category , offshore experience and age. Personnel category, offshore experience and age also promoted moderate associations between emotional reactio ns and satisfaction with aspects of safety and contingency measures. T he respondents indicated engagement in emotion-focused and perception- focused coping responses when anticipating platform movements onboard. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.