The Psychological Safety of Oil and Gas Workers in the Arctic

Abstract

Abstract The reported study was funded by RFBR according to the research project № 18-013-00623. The article is devoted to the study of regulatory processes as a personal marker of the psychological safety of oil and gas employees in the Arctic. The study of personal markers of psychological safety in workers of oil and gas producing companies under the shift work organization in the Arctic will create optimal recommendations for the psychological support of professionals. By psychological safety we mean the mental state of subject control of a complex of external and internal factors of the ergatic system that ensures the actualization of the internal means of the individual for the effectiveness of professional activity at the psychophysiological and psychological level. We have developed a theoretical model of psychological safety, which includes five main components: functional states at the psychophysiological and psychological level; "The image of the object", "the image of the subject" and "the image of subject- subject and subject-object" relations, viewed through the mental structure of regulation. The survey involved 70 specialists from oil and gas producing companies working on a shift basis in the Nenets Autonomous District. Methods of research: studying documentation, monitoring the work process, questioning, psycho-physiological and psychological testing, statistical methods of data analysis. To diagnose regulatory processes, the questionnaire "Style of self-regulation of behavior" (SSPM) was used. Morosanova. It was revealed that in order to ensure the psychological safety of workers in oil and gas producing companies in the Arctic in the field of failures, it is necessary to have a moderately high level of planning and modeling intensity, as well as a lower level of independence as regulatory processes.