We understand that Fatigue in the workplace has the potential to impact safety, productivity and efficiency.
The goal of our Fatigue Risk Management is to construct layers of protection around our employees using a comprehensive toolbox of FRMS tools, which will facilitate the visibility and allow us to mitigate and manage fatigue related exposures to improve operations.
Fatigue is often an insidious and invisible ever present threat leading to unwelcome distractions or worse. Do our managers and supervisors have sufficient knowledge and the awareness of any potential exposures related to fatigue and how they impact performance.
The following elements should be visible within our FRMS implementation strategy:
– Full Engagement
– Detailed Assessment of status
– Definition of the FRMS
– Development of the Framework
– Implementation of the system elements and go live
– Validation and ongoing assessment
Our Fatigue Management efforts should be focused through the employment of a practical and effective system, which is able to identify our risks and exposures and to predicts, measures and mitigates fatigue and distraction risks.
To implement our Fatigue Risk Management System (FRMS) we need to communicate and educate all levels of our organization regarding the causes of fatigue, how fatigue risk impacts operations and the methods and technologies available to mitigate risk:
Step 1 to assess your organization’s current fatigue risk envelope.
Step 2 Assess existing FRM systems, policies, and procedures that currently mitigate fatigue risk and integrate them in to our existing SMS Framework.
Step 3 Build a FRMS that includes comprehensive documentation training and process controls including detailed understanding of roles and responsibilities, communication and Fatigue Risk recognition strategies.
Step 4 Establish a continuous process to measure the effectiveness and the operational impact of our FRMS in order to track and maintain the positive impact on workforce health, safety and operational costs.
Please consider the following questions as indicators of engagement with the FRMS sample of 3 elements from the 9 element checklist:
a) FRMS policy and objectives
i/ Do you know the contents of the FRMS Policy?;
ii/ Do you know where it is written?;
iii/ Have you received training how to comply?;
Iv/ Has your knowledge been tested or measured?
b) FRMS documentation
i/ Are you familiar with the FRMS Documentation including all the reporting forms?;
ii/ Have you been trained on working with FRMS documentation?;
iii/ Have you ever reported “potential” issues into your FRMS (say twice each year?);
Iv/ Has your knowledge been tested or measured?
c) FRMS Risk Management
i/ Are you familiar with the Concept of Fatigue Risk Management and “how” it is actually “managed”?;
ii/ Have you received any training on how to perform risk management?;
iii/ Have you seen and understood the contents of the “ Fatigue risk register” and what it means for you?;
iv/ Has your knowledge been tested or measured?
Sofema Aviation Services offers regulatory training for organisations wishing to develop FRMS solutions for their organisations.
For details please see www.sassofia.com or email:office@sassofia.com
