Field operations in the high Arctic - experienced feedback and tacit knowledge as key tools for safety management
The paper demonstrates the importance of tacit knowledge to cope with various situations during field work in the high arctic. Two cases from field work at the University Center in Svalbard (UNIS) are shown to exemplify this: one boat trip and one snow mobile trip with researchers and students. Succ...
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ftntnutrondheimi:oai:ntnuopen.ntnu.no:11250/2582376 2023-05-15T14:57:18+02:00 Field operations in the high Arctic - experienced feedback and tacit knowledge as key tools for safety management Indreiten, Martin Albrechtsen, Eirik Cohen, Sarah S. 2018 http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2582376 https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351174664 eng eng Taylor & Francis Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World. Proceedings of ESREL 2018, June 17-21, 2018, Trondheim, Norway https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351174657/chapters/10.1201%2F9781351174664-243 urn:isbn:9781351174657 http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2582376 https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351174664 cristin:1596707 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no CC-BY-NC-ND 1939-1945 Chapter 2018 ftntnutrondheimi https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351174664 2019-09-17T06:54:03Z The paper demonstrates the importance of tacit knowledge to cope with various situations during field work in the high arctic. Two cases from field work at the University Center in Svalbard (UNIS) are shown to exemplify this: one boat trip and one snow mobile trip with researchers and students. Successful field operations depend heavily on technicians from the UNIS Field Safety Section that have the responsibility to assist in the planning and execution of every type of field work. Due to rapidly changing conditions, local variations, extreme weather conditions, lack of access to infrastructure and communication, successful safety performance is accomplished by individual’s ability to adapt to situations. The paper demonstrates that this ability to a large extent is a function of the tacit knowledge of the technicians. To improve the tacit knowledge of each technicians, systems and practices of experience feedback must be run to ensure individual and organizational learning from both failures as well as successes. This is in particular important in systems with great variability in climatic conditions and systems with organizational changes. publishedVersion Published by Taylor & Francis. Made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Book Part Arctic Svalbard UNIS NTNU Open Archive (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Arctic Svalbard London |
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The paper demonstrates the importance of tacit knowledge to cope with various situations during field work in the high arctic. Two cases from field work at the University Center in Svalbard (UNIS) are shown to exemplify this: one boat trip and one snow mobile trip with researchers and students. Successful field operations depend heavily on technicians from the UNIS Field Safety Section that have the responsibility to assist in the planning and execution of every type of field work. Due to rapidly changing conditions, local variations, extreme weather conditions, lack of access to infrastructure and communication, successful safety performance is accomplished by individual’s ability to adapt to situations. The paper demonstrates that this ability to a large extent is a function of the tacit knowledge of the technicians. To improve the tacit knowledge of each technicians, systems and practices of experience feedback must be run to ensure individual and organizational learning from both failures as well as successes. This is in particular important in systems with great variability in climatic conditions and systems with organizational changes. publishedVersion Published by Taylor & Francis. Made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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Field operations in the high Arctic - experienced feedback and tacit knowledge as key tools for safety management |
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Field operations in the high Arctic - experienced feedback and tacit knowledge as key tools for safety management |
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Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World. Proceedings of ESREL 2018, June 17-21, 2018, Trondheim, Norway https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351174657/chapters/10.1201%2F9781351174664-243 urn:isbn:9781351174657 http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2582376 https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351174664 cristin:1596707 |
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