Fatigue Management

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Fatigue Management

• General Awareness - Facts, Myths, and the Path
  Forward

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General Awareness Facts about Fatigue

• Fatigue is the feeling of extreme tiredness or
  exhaustion, often involving muscle weakness.
• Fatigue is a message to the body to rest. Fatigue
  can compound until it becomes disturbing and
  eventually overwhelming.

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General Awareness Facts about Fatigue

• Fatigue causes slower physical and mental
  reaction time, which results in an increase in
  the number of errors, poor decisions, decreased
  performance, dangerous lapses of micro sleeps and
  dangerous automatic behaviors

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General Awareness Facts about Fatigue

• Everyone is affected.
• Tired employees affect themselves, co- workers,
  production / service, management, families and
  communities.

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General Awareness Facts about Fatigue

• Fatigue has a significant impact on environment,
  health, safety and finances everywhere.
• The National Sleep Association estimates that
  fatigue costs hundreds billions a year in higher
  stress and reduced workplace productivity.

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General Awareness Facts about Fatigue

• Human beings are not very good in estimating
  their own level of alertness.

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Facts about Fatigue

• Catastrophic incidents do not happen at random
  throughout the day they are more likely at
  times when workers are most prone to sleep
  between midnight and 6 am and 1 and 3 pm.

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Fatigue vs. Alcohol Impairment
Blood Alcohol Content
Adapted from Dawson and Reid, 1997
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General AwarenessFatigue Causal Factors

• Stress
• Sleep Debt
• Corporate Culture
• Biological Contributors / Factors
• Job Requirements
• PPE
• Exposure
• Cultural Beliefs
• Life Style Choices

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General Awareness Fatigue Management Path Forward

• Include Fatigue Management strategies as part of
  everyone's life style at home and at work.

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General Awareness Fatigue Management Path Forward

• Every level of business in the Oil and Gas
  Industry has crucial responsibilities for
  successful Fatigue Management.
• Workers
• Contractors
• Operators

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General Awareness Fatigue Management Path Forward

• Include Fatigue Management into Fitness for Duty
  Programs which should at least consist of
• Drug and Alcohol Program
• Fatigue Management Program
• Illness / Injury Free Workforce Principle at the
  beginning of the work process (day, shift, hitch,
  etc.)

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Recommendations

• Add to
• BBS
• JSA
• MoC
• RCA
• PRA and Project Planning
• SWA

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Recommendations

• Average Work Day not to exceed 14 hours
• Educate everyone on Fatigue in next 6 months
  (Safe Gulf????)
• For any deviation MoC shall be utilized
• Propose Pilot Projects to Capture Hours w/o Rest
  and Consecutive Work Days ( Via Improvement
  Teams)
• Phase II collect Pilot Program Feed Back and
  Further Develop Fat. MGMT Training