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Offshore industry has always been a risky working place, and therefore there has always been a strong focus on maintaining the highest safety standards. The present research aims to ascertain the effects of a new safety mindset from both individual employee and organizational angles, and is based on two surveys conducted in 2010 and 2014 on Danish oil production platforms in the North Sea and qualitative data from interviews, observations and documentary analysis. The participating offshore oil company introduced a new safety mindset at the beginning of 2010 to all of their employees and subcontractors. The results indicate that there were some significant, positive changes both in individual employee attitudes towards safety and in strong organizational commitment to work closely with employees to ensure the highest workplace safety status on oil platforms. However, the results also show that it is important to maintain a campaign to ensure these positive effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Fishing is a risky occupation as injuries and fatalities in fishing vessels are quite common. This paper investigates the pattern of injuries aboard fishing vessels in Denmark to get a better understanding of areas where further action is needed to reduce the number of injuries and fatalities in Danish fishing vessels. Materials and methods: Data for this study, extracted from the Danish Fishermen's Occupational Health Service's database (in the period 1998-2012) and the Danish Maritime Authority's accident report from 2013 to 2016, include 1840 injuries in Danish fisheries. Result: The results showed decreased injuries in the study period from 45 injuries and deaths per 1000 fishermen reported to the authorities to 12 injuries and deaths per 1000 fishermen in 2016: 2.1% (n = 39) of all reported injuries in the study period resulted in the death of a fisherman and the remaining injuries resulted in sick leave of more than one day; 52.5% (n = 600) of reported injuries involved fishermen who have less than one year's experience of employment; 29% (n = 407) of injuries took place between 12:00 and 16:00, and the second largest number of injuries, 23.3% (n = 324), took place between 8:00 and 12:00. The incident rate of slip/fall injuries has decreased from 10.06 per 1000 fishermen in 1998 to 3.84 in 2016. The incidence rate of injuries caused by crushing also decreased, from 9.32 accidents per 1000 fishermen in 1998 to 2.56 in 2016. Most of the injuries, 74.5% (n = 1307), happened on the deck of the vessel. Sprain/strain was among the most common injuries (34.2%; n = 538) followed by fracture (24.8%; n = 391). Conclusion: This study indicated that the number of injuries had been gradually decreasing in Danish commercial fishing vessels in the period from 1998 to 2016. The rate of injuries had been declining due to several initiatives such as the establishment of The Danish Fishermen's Occupational Health Services, training, safety campaigns, technological improvement and structural changes in fisheries management. However, there are still places for improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper assesses and locates general readiness and capacity for internal joint action of five Danish rural parishes, and uses this as a proxy in a discussion of the opportunities of increased use of volunteers in welfare co-production in rural Denmark. The literature describes the importance of maintaining active communities that have the ability to take over or co-produce where government assistance leaves off, ensuring that all citizens-not only the strongest-can access services in the future. Co-production is dependent on capacity outside the government, capacity within the government, as well as effective coordination. By use of mixed-methods, the paper shows that the readiness for joint action varies among the five parishes and depends on very different organisations. Some parishes' readiness for joint actions is simply much higher than others. This result offers an important lesson for planners and politicians, who--for a co-production strategy to be successful and equal--must obtain concrete knowledge about the rural areas they serve. Their knowledge must cover not only socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, but also traditions of knowledge-sharing, participation, and mobilisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]