Família em alto mar : a interface com a cultura de segurança

Abstract

The offshore family has a distinguished dynamic, since the family member whom works offshore stays away from their loved ones for several days. Thus, the family organizes itself without the worker’s presence, relying on the social support network to carry out everyday tasks, such as taking the children to school. This cycle of arrivals and departures is experienced every 15 or 20 days and it is accompanied by feelings of anxiety and distress, since offshore work is performed on a maritime platform. Because of those circumstances, the worker's absence in important events (birthdays, christenings) affects the monitoring of their children's development. This dissertation investigated the relationships between offshore workers in the oil and gas industry and their family and/or social support network in the interface of safety culture. Supported by the historical materialist dialectic method, it focused on reality and proposes to go beyond the surface, seeking to answer the questioning of the research: what factors are related to the family and/or social support network of the offshore worker in the O&G industry can they contribute as subsidies for the implementation of an operational safety culture? The general objective was to identify factors in the family relationship and/or social support network and offshore worker in the O&G industry that contribute as subsidies for the implementation of an operational safety culture, and the specific objectives are: to analyze the factors related to the support of family and the workers' social support network and operational safety; identify demands/needs of workers, families, the social support network and the barriers to meeting/overcoming these needs/demands, with emphasis on the period in which the worker is on board (offshore); identify O&G industry actions available to offshore workers focused on their relationship with the support network and with the family, with an emphasis on the offshore period; develop strategies/subsidies that include the family and the support network of workers who contribute to the implementation of the safety culture. The research developed here is of a qualitative nature and uses the data triangulation method as an instrument and collection through semi-structured interviews, analysis of documents made available by companies and bibliographical research. Data treatment was carried out by content analysis in Moraes (1994), which emerged 3 (three) final categories of analysis, namely: safety culture, social support network and offshore work.