The DEVEL0PMENT OF CRISES AND DISASTERS MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS FOR DEVELOPING ASPECTS OF PARTICIPATION AND SKILLS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION-MAKING AMONG WORKERS IN SOME PETROLEUM INSTITUTIONS

The current study’s purpose is to develop aspects of participation and skills of decision-making among employees in petroleum institutions through a suggested program for management of crises and disasters by including some ecological disasters that workers in petroleum industries may encounter; measuring as well the efficacy of this program through trying it on a sample of employees.
Petroleum industry leads to air pollution because of the leakage of petroleum gases in huge amounts, consuming energy should be rationalized, and noise, in addition to the risks of destructive fires.
Regarding the programs of crises and disasters management applied in this industry, it is shown that there is shortness in their environmental treatment that doesn’t help achieving or developing participation and skills of environmental decision-making among employees in this field. Current programs focus on individuals’ sufficiency of productive and economic activities, covering demanded processes such as industrialization, operating, maintenance, service, and control of quality and production...etc. but since workers are involved in operation processes, they should be provided with skills of environmental decision-making, developing as well their environmental participation through programs of crises and disasters management that workers may meet in their workplace. The study uses several tools, through designing for instance, scale of environmental participation and scale of skills of environmental decision-making. The study is applied on a sample of employees in petroleum companies, namely, The Holding Company for Natural Gases (EGAS) and Company of Petroleum Gases (Petrogas), and Egyptian Company for Transporting and Connecting Gas (Potagasco). The sample consists of (50) workers as the experimental group.
Research tools are applied on the sample and the program is applied on the experimental group and scales are pre/post corrected. Results are monitored that the proposed program is effective in developing participation and skills of environmental decision-making among employees.
The researcher recommends applying this suggested program on all petroleum institutions through training courses of the crises and disasters management due to labor environment requirements and reconsidering the applied programs to make sure they have the protection means of the environment.