From hindsight to insight: HOP (Human and Organizational Performance) in Practice with Kristian Gould

What?

Curious to hear more about what HOP (Human and Organizational Performance) is and how you can make use of it in your own organization?

Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) has become a popular safety approach across industries. HOP is not a new theory or tool. It packages a range of modern safety philosophies in a format that is easier to communicate and use. The benefits of this approach include more proactive leadership, improved learning from incidents and strengthened trust. It also enables practical use of Human Factors throughout the organization.

Equinor has worked with HOP integration over the past three years. This has resulted in changes to how the company measures safety performance, how it develops leadership capabilities and how it conducts normal safety activities. Together with the Federation of Norwegian Industry (Norsk Industri), the company has also worked with developing practical HOP guidelines and training material. You can have a look at the material HERE (in English) and HERE (in Norwegian). The material and guide on how to work with HOP in practice can be applied to all industrial sectors that want to learn and try this approach.

We did not have the answer to what good safety looks like in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, or today. Organizations are evolving, methods are evolving, the role of safety professionals is evolving.

SÄKU will start off 2025 by welcoming Kristian Gould, PhD and Human Factors and Organizational Safety Specialist at Equinor, who will talk about what motivated this effort, how it has been carried out in practice, and what the next steps will be.

To give you a little teaser, the HOP approach in Equinor can be seen in a short two minutes (video): Norwegian, English 

If you want to listen to Kristian prior to the webinar, he visited Todd Conklin’s podcast Pre-Accident Investigations in May 2024. You can listen to the episode HERE or search for the episode on your favorite music stream service.

This will be our first webinar to feature a Norwegian guest, and we hope this is the start of SÄKU becoming even more Scandinavian in its approach and reach.

As always, you as an audience will get the chance to ask your questions.

The webinar will be held in English and be recorded and later published at the SÄKU Member Page.

Warm welcome and hope to see you there!

About Kristian Gould

Kristian Gould is part of Equinor’s corporate safety team, where he works as a specialist in human factors and organizational safety. He has a PhD in Human Factors from the University of Bergen, where he worked with research on navigation safety in the Royal Norwegian Navy. He lives in Oslo.

About Norsk Industri

Norsk Industri (The Federation of Norwegian Industries) is a federation founded in 2005, when the Federation of Norwegian Manufacturing Industries (TBL) and the Federation of Norwegian Process Industries (PIL) joined. Norsk Industri is part of the overall Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO). Norsk Industri is similar to the Swedish “Teknikföretagen”, part of Svenskt Näringsliv. 

About Equinor

Equinor is an international energy company headquartered in Norway, with over 23 000 employees in around 30 countries worldwide. Equinor was called Statoil until 2018 when the rebranding took place. It’s majority-owned by the Norwegian state.

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