Table 8 Employees’ needs for improvement
Category 1: Work tasks | |
transfer and access to installations | promotion of greater awareness among the workers when accessing installations definition of maximum waiting times when accessing installations |
Category 2: Work organization | |
communication off−/onshore | promotion of a better mutual understanding and flow of information between colleagues offshore and onshore |
personnel | increase in offshore personnel |
workflow | definition of clear work processes |
work time | changes in work tasks to avoid overtime work reduction of working hours (e.g. from 12 to 10 h) definition of break and leave regulations |
work schedule | changes in work schedule (e.g. from 14 to 10 days offshore) |
payment | increase in payment |
medical care & check-ups | establishment of uniform international standards for check-ups |
Category 3: Work environment | |
workplace design | assurance of ergonomic workplace design |
physicochemical factors | provision of room humidifiers in cabins to avoid dry air |
Category 4: Social relations | |
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Category 5: New forms of work | |
private and family life | assurance of stable telephone and internet connections |
accommodation | provision of single cabins of reasonable size |
catering | arrangements with catering to improve healthy diet |
opportunities for leisure activities and retreat | improvement of sports and leisure opportunities |