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06.01.2012Differing dangers at sea
The probability of being killed at work is 25 times higher for a coastal fisherman than for an offshore worker, according to a study from the UiS. Seafarers also run a high risk of accidents.
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15.11.2011Surgical checklists save lives
Using checklists to improve work practices has long been normal in the aviation and oil industry. Checklists are now also implemented worldwide in the operating room.
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15.11.2011Creating safer surgery
Surgical procedures save and improve lives worldwide, but the figures on serious complications and deaths are high. PhD student Sindre Høyland sees ways of reducing these numbers.
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15.11.2011Coming to terms with terror
How will the terrorist attacks in Norway on 22 July change the country? That question has been put to three social scientists at the University of Stavanger (UiS).
19.10.2011If coordination fails
The Norwegian healthcare services are organized in primary and secondary service levels. According to PhD student Kristin Laugaland at UiS effective and safe care depends on coordination across the two service levels in which transitions across them represent a crucial stage in the recovery of elderly people.
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19.10.2011Cheap clothes come at a price
Consumers should curb their desire to buy ever more clothes, and demand more responsibility from the big clothing chains.
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14.06.2011Aven’s research world
Professor Terje Aven has an ambitious goal, to build a scientific platform for the fields of risk assessment and risk management. His latest contributions to this end is three scientific monographs addressing some fundamental issues about risk.
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10.06.2011Patient safety in European hospitals
Five years ago, a research team at the University of Stavanger started to study patient safety at a hospital in Norway. Professor Karina Aase and her colleagues have since then extended their scope to other hospitals in Norway and in Europe.
29.04.2011Sustaining vulnerable lives
Patient safety is a hot topic in the U.S., Australia and Europe. Large resources are set aside for research projects that will make life safer for patients. In Norway, the research field is still new – but researchers from Stavanger are in the forefront.
15.03.2011Lessons learnt from oil disaster
When interviewed by the BBC, the now retired BP boss Tony Hayward admitted to his company’s insufficient response to the Deepwater Horizon rig accident in the Gulf of Mexico. Could the company have been better prepared?
SEROS is a multidiciplinary research centre at the University of Stavanger.
Our research and education activities focus on theoretical and methodological premises for societal safety, security and welfare.
