Human factors (HF) is a line responsibility in the project, meaning that every department engineer is responsible for incorporating HF requirements into his or her design: ‘…each organizational unit and individual is responsible for identifying, planning, executing and documenting safety related activities (including occupational safety/HF, and protection of the external environment) within their normal scope of work’
Department supervisors have the following responsibility: ‘Each department supervisor shall during the pre-engineering phase make an assessment of HF considerations within his area of responsibility. He shall identify problematic areas, possible or probable nonconformities with requirements and recommendations of necessary activities…’ The safety department is responsible for monitoring of HF activities in the project. The HF specialist is part of the safety department. Her task is to write HF documents (specifications, reports, etc.) and to assist in HF matters. The HF activities in the detail engineering phase are defined as: ‘Give input and advice to other departments as required, to ensure that all HF criteria are met… Document implementation of HF by updating HF data sheets prepared in pre-engineering. Give input to safety and HF report.’
In the pre-engineering phase a safety programme, a safety and HF philosophy and an HF specification were written. In the detail engineering phase an HF specification for suppliers, an HF implementation report (data sheets) and a safety and HF report have been written. These documents have been distributed to the engineering departments.
The safety programme states that ‘All project participants shall familiarise themselves with this safety programme’ Further, the following objective is put forward: ‘…the highest level of HSE [health, safety and environment] as is practically and economically feasible’. The purpose and scope of the safety programme is to ‘ensure safety and HF the necessary attention within all organizational units’. Following this, it is stressed that the requirements of the different documents must be implemented, among others the safety and HF philosophy. The safety programme also contains a paragraph focusing on the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) and their concern for HF: ‘NPD has experienced that HF considerations are often put aside for other design requirements. Consequently NPD calls for close follow-up of HF activities within engineering organizations, and encourages dedicated organizational units for follow-up. In the light of the above, a responsibility matrix has been prepared to ensure that also the working environment act is fully implemented…’ Following this, the different engineering departments, except for the materials department, are given responsibility for different parts of the Working Environment Act.