Immersive Safety Handling and Training

Abstract

tion of efficiency development for the entire oil and gas industry. The result of the full implementation of IO is a business transformation that will influence the oil and gas companies at all levels: advanced technology applications, organizational structures and work processes, and the interaction between all parties involved both inside and outside the oil companies. The oil companies and the service companies will work in a much closer relationship in the future. One important change is the new Onshore Support Centers (OSC) that supplements, and in some cases take over, the traditional control structures at the offshore oil and gas installations. This transformation of control from the offshore rigs to onshore control centers requires a strong focus on safety handling and training. The use of Virtual Reality centers to train control room personnel to handle simulated offshore operations is an appealing way to maintain the strict safety regulations demanded in the oil and gas industry. Existing studies on training of control room operators have concentrated on team development and training on such diverse teams as aircraft cockpit crews, military combat center groups and nuclear power plants operators [1], in which the former resembles the subjects in our case. The international aviation industry has been using a special form of human factors training with their flight deck crews and other teams, called crew resource manage