The Adverse Environmental Impact Factors Analysis on Fly-In-Fly-Out Personnel at Industrial Enterprises.

Yana Korneeva

doi:10.3390/ijerph19020997

Abstract

(1) Background: the research purpose is to identify and describe the general and different factors of adverse environmental impact on FIFO personnel at industrial enterprises at different levels of differential analysis of professional activity. (2) Methods: The research involved 359 employees of industrial enterprises with FIFO work organization. The study was carried out using a questionnaire, including a subjective assessment of the discomfort of three groups of negative environment impact factors to the FIFO personnel: climatic-geographical, industrial and social. (3) Results: The relationship between the increase in the degree of discomfort of production factors due to the in-fluence of climatic, geographical and social conditions has been established. With a various location of objects, the greatest discomfort is felt from the action of climatic and production factors; with varying degrees of group isolation and the shift period duration—all three groups, with the greatest influence of domestic and social; in various industries and enterprises—all three groups. (4) Conclusions: The differential analysis of the professional activities of FIFO personnel of industrial enterprises should be carried out at the following levels: the location of an industrial facility, the degree of group isolation, the duration of the shift period, the industry, the type of enterprise and the professional group.

Highlights

The fly-in-fly-out (FIFO) employment continues to expand at the present time
With a various location of objects, the greatest discomfort is felt from the action of climatic and production factors; with varying degrees of group isolation and the shift period duration—all three groups, with the greatest influence of domestic and social; in various industries and enterprises—all three groups
To identify the differences in the subjective assessment of the discomfort of unfavorable environmental factors felt by FIFO workers at different geographical locations of industrial facilities, three multivariate analyses of variance (MANOVA) were successively applied, where the fixed factor was the attribution of an industrial facility in the north or south of the Russian Federation

Summary

Introduction

The fly-in-fly-out (FIFO) employment continues to expand at the present time. TheFIFO method of organizing work is denoted by the terms “Fly-in-Fly-out”, “long distance labor commuting” or “shift work” and is understood as “any job in which work is so isolated from the places of permanent residence of workers that they food and housing are provided at the workplace, and lists are created according to which workers spend a fixed number of days at the site (shift camp), followed by a fixed number of days of rest at home” [1] (p. 2). This method is used to service all remote production areas, including both offshore oil and gas fields and onshore production projects. It is important to note that the FIFO method is “the only viable option for offshore oil and gas industry, since, in contrast with on-shore mine sites, daily travel to work in these conditions is impossible, and permanent places of residence are not available” [1]. The use of the FIFO work method is spreading fast to various sectors of economy, including construction, production and transport. Enterprises, organizations and objects at which the FIFO method of organizing work can be applied include companies in the oil and gas industry, forestry, geological exploration and railway transport, as well as construction and installation trusts. A great demand for FIFO workers is observed in the

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