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Pathological Complacency: When Things Can Go Wrong By Being the Best

RigZone -- Every day legions of men and women report to work at oil and gas installations worldwide, ensuring that global energy markets receive a steady supply of hydrocarbons and refined products. Although these individuals regularly work in hazardous environments such as offshore drilling rigs and oil refineries, they consistently demonstrate their ability to negotiate the risks inherent in their jobs.

Given the extensive skill and experience that these workers demonstrate and their employers demand on a daily basis, having world-class know-how and safety policies and procedures in place can ironically introduce a very real danger into the mix. When an individual, workforce or facility owner becomes excessively certain of their ability to safely operate a complex oil and gas facility, a mindset

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Submitted Feb 03, 2012 By: angel4me

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remay Champion Author Houston Posts:5,232 Points:1,762,895 Joined:May 2006	Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 2:24:13 PM Ignore remay Report Abuse "When an individual, workforce or facility owner becomes excessively certain of their ability to safely operate a complex oil and gas facility, a mindset called "pathological complacency" can set in" The writer should visit some of these O&G companies and see that they CONTINUALLY stress safety, policy, and procedures!
DanMtz Champion Author Oakland Posts:1,537 Points:883,475 Joined:Oct 2009	Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:57:21 PM Ignore DanMtz Report Abuse Periodic training and enforcement of a safety culture ought to cure complacency. Of course, you need upper management's buy-in...
Eliano Champion Author Baltimore Posts:1,406 Points:277,225 Joined:Jun 2011	Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 2:26:28 PM Ignore Eliano Report Abuse well, how interesting thing might be a boring as well ?
bar1035 Champion Author Charlotte Posts:6,606 Points:940,095 Joined:Aug 2006	Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 9:14:13 AM Ignore bar1035 Report Abuse sometimes the people on the Rigzone Staff get complacent too
chuckwthompson Champion Author Charlotte Posts:1,895 Points:218,510 Joined:Sep 2011	Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 5:51:56 AM Ignore chuckwthompson Report Abuse Interesting article, but boring!
mike1881 All-Star Author Fayetteville Posts:719 Points:262,555 Joined:Feb 2011	Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 5:02:03 AM Ignore mike1881 Report Abuse Like the guy before me. Okay. I am just being lazy and don't really have a comment for this article so i am going to take the easy way out like hundreds of Champion Authors.
cheapchickKY Champion Author Lexington Posts:2,160 Points:437,205 Joined:Jan 2011	Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 12:19:13 AM Ignore cheapchickKY Report Abuse Okay.
livable1 Champion Author New York Posts:2,323 Points:283,265 Joined:Oct 2008	Message Posted: Feb 3, 2012 11:37:21 PM Ignore livable1 Report Abuse Get a Mathematician!
babyjudy Champion Author Tucson Posts:1,007 Points:219,775 Joined:Sep 2011	Message Posted: Feb 3, 2012 11:28:05 PM Ignore babyjudy Report Abuse In the article, Fawcett states that "overconfidence masks warning signs -- we can see what we want to see rather than what's really there" sounds like a pretty common human trait regardless of whether we are overconfident, experts in the field, or the best at what we do. Pathological complacency sounds like another buzz word that is not needed.