Understanding how fatigue influences cognitive performance, risk and safety within your organisation is a complex issue. Laboratory based research shows simple relationships between fatigue, error and performance. In the real world, work place behaviours are complex, adaptive and often protected against fatigue related error. In this topic we will use Klein’s model of naturalistic decision making to explain how fatigue affects real world behaviours.
Fatigue risk management systems do not exist independent of the organisational safety culture. Developing a fatigue risk
management system requires managers to insure that the tools policies and practices used to manage fatigue related risk are matched to the safety culture of the organisation.
- Identifying the stage of organisational maturity, safety culture and infrastructure characterising your organisation
- Matching current fatigue risk management technologies, tools and policy
All personnel involved in the management, operation, administration, participation and verification of Advanced Fatigue Management (AFM) must demonstrate appropriate knowledge of skills in fatigue management.
- The required components of a fatigue management policy?
- How to better address your personal and corporate liabilities?
Who is responsible for ensuring employees are ready for work and that they are in a fit state to safely perform required duties?
- Management is responsible for preventing excessive duration of wakefulness at work and inadequate sleep opportunities between shifts
- Employees are responsible for using time between work periods to obtain sleep
- Management is responsible for providing clear guidelines on how to manage an insufficient sleep incident
An internal review process is an essential management tool that checks procedures are being followed. Fundamental to themanagement of fatigue risk is the capacity of the AFM option system to assess fatigue risk and to identify report and investigate incidents of non-compliance.
- Implement procedures to monitor, identify, report, investigate and record non-compliance and take necessary action to prevent further occurrences
- Investigate incidents to determine whether fatigue was a contributing factor
- Developing an organisational policy for shiftwork and fatigue management
The Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) is a quality assured national framework of qualifications in the school, vocational education and training (VET), and higher education sectors in Australia.
- What is competency and how is it measured and attained?
- What is an AQF training package?
- What is AQF skills recognition?
- Emerging post-graduate qualifications in fatigue risk management
A sleep and alertness disorders screening system should be implemented that addresses, as a minimum, sleep disorders, medical history, substance abuse and diet as well as providing preventative and remedial measures to assist drivers in the management.
- Examinations to assess individuals in a high risk group
- Promote and encourage better fatigue-related health management for staff
- What are the legal requirements of a fatigue risk management policy?
- What are employer / employee responsibilities?
- How can you better address your personal and corporate ?
Smart phones and short messaging service (SMS) is emerging as the technology platform for automating Level 2 fatigue-risk management tools.
This platform will soon provide the capacity for employees to:
- Notify management of their personal FLI via SMS
- Receive automatic notification of FLI scores and alerts when scores have either not been received or indicate a high level of fatigue-risk
- Automatically generate summary and compliance reports for employees across a selected time period
Learn how to provide practical information for shift workers and their families to reduce risk and the impact of fatigue.
- Applying competency-based standards for training
- Creating consistent decision pathways for managers
- Ensuring employees can implement effective risk mitigation
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