Preview Fatigue Risk Management Chart

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 















1. 

2.  









3. 







Moderate Risk

  





> Reduce working hours

> Increase resourcing

> Eliminate the use of extended hours for parcular jobs or acvies

> Control the length of shis

> Limit the use of overme, especially unscheduled overme

> Monitor hours of work

> Provide alternave transport at end of overme/long shi

> Maintain vigilance in idenfying non-work related factors

> Subsidise modicaons to private homes to improve sleeping condions (eg air condioning)

> Provide informaon and educaon about how non-work related factors can increase the risks of fague

> Provide a mechanism to encourage employees/workers to report non-work factors that might aect fague management

> Start work at long distance commute sites on the day aer arrival and start travel home on the day aer the shi

cycle is nished

> Assist with travel arrangements, eg provide transport

> Reduce acve working me to account for long commung me or distance

1. Sleep (amount and quality)

2. Health

3. Fitness for work

4. Lifestyle factors



> Eliminate or limit night work where possible

> Eliminate the use of nightshis for parcular jobs

or acvies

> Schedule complex tasks for dayme

> Schedule work for hours when the risks may be lower –

for example, complex and safety-crical tasks are best

undertaken during normal day shis when employees/

workers are less likely to be fagued, rather than during low

body clock periods (ie don’t schedule tasks between 2am

and 6am and, to a lesser degree, between 2pm and 4pm)

> Avoid scheduling higher risk tasks on the rst night of a

night shi cycle. If unavoidable, when planning the

task consider addional controls such as job rotaon or

addional rest breaks

> Minimise or redesign roune administrave tasks to ensure

employees/workers can focus on core dues during their

night work

> Allow for naps during night shis

> Limit the number of consecuve night shis worked – no

more than four night shis in a row

> Allow regular night employees/workers periods of normal

nights’ sleep to catch up on their sleep decit

> Ensure that rosters allow for at least two full nights’ sleep

aer the last night shi

> Arrange shis so that day sleep is adequate

> Use a forward-rotaon shi system (ie morning to

aernoon, aernoon to night)

> Improve the order, speed, direcon and length of rotaon

of the shi cycle

> Except for emergencies, give at least 24 hours noce

before night work. Consider providing a longer period of

noce so that employees/workers have me to adjust

their acvies



> Develop a working-hours policy on daily work hours,

maximum average weekly hours, total hours over a three-

month period and work-related travel

> Reduce working hours

> Reduce the number of consecuve day shis that can be

worked

> Eliminate or reduce the need to work long shis for more

than four consecuve days

> Allocate shi employees/workersconsecuvedayso,including

some weekends, depending upon their fague risk level

> Avoid working arrangements that provide incenves to

work excessive hours

> Control overme, shi swapping and on-call dues

> Oer alternaves to employees/workers who may have

dicules adjusng to working hours



> Limit use of standby and on-call dues

> Ensure that exchange of shis does not result in excessive

hours

> Ensure that responding to emergencies does not result in

excessive hours



> Increase the length of breaks between shis

> Allow for recovery between work periods

> Defer non-urgent work to allow appropriate rest and

recuperaon for employees/workers

> Provide rest days; (opportunity for two consecuve night

sleeps)

> Improve the ming of shis

> Allow forfamilyandsocialcommitmentsbetweenshisand

shi cycles

> Make sure that there is enough me in a break for six

hours uninterrupted sleep



> Provide more and/or longer breaks to allow for recovery

within work periods

> Provide adequate resources to cover breaks

> Ensure adequate number and locaon of crib and toilet

facilies

> Reduce the use of split shis

> Where split shis are used, arrange ming so sleep of

employees/workers is not disrupted due to the mes they

are required to work



> Don’t start or nish between 10pm and 6 am

> Ensure me for adequate communicaon at shi

handovers

> Match shi mes to the availability of public transport



> Set shi rosters ahead of me and avoid sudden changes

of shis to allow employees/workers to plan leisure me

> Reduce irregular and unpredictable work schedules



> Re-design jobs to eliminate boring, repeve tasks

> Improve communicaon

> Provide training to allow mul-skilling and eecve job

rotaon

> Use alarms and monitors, parcularly for solo work (eg

driving vehicles)

> Use plant, machinery and equipment to eliminate or

reduce the excessive physical demands of the job

> Reduce the amount of me employees/workers need

to spend performing sustained physically and mentally

demanding work

> Ensure there are adequate employees/workers and

other resources to do the job without placing excessive

demands on sta

> Roster enough employees/workers during peak mes and

demands

> Ensure adequate breaks during shis to allow recovery

> Allow supervisors and employees/workers to reschedule

tasks if fague becomes a problem

> Ensure work demands gradually increase towards the

middle of the shi and decrease towards the end

> Eliminate sources of risks that might exacerbate fague

(eg lack of job control, manual handling, extremes of

temperature)

> Improve communicaon processes

> Improve the duraon and ming of work

> Ensure safe and ecient shi hand-over

These include, for example:

1. Repeve or monotonous work

2. Sustained physical or mental eort

3. Sustained and/or complex physical or mental tasks

1. Shi end (for those working eight hours or more

between 10.00pm and 6.00am)

2. Length of shi

3. Sequenal night shis

4. Period of non-work following a sequence of night shis

5. Breaks during work - frequency

6. Breaks between work periods

- recovery me

7. Seasonal work arrangements

- hours worked

 

1. Length of shi

2. Time of shi

3. Speed and direcon of shi

4. Split shis/variable shis



1. Average weekly hours

2. Total hours over a three-month period

3. Daily work hours

4. Daily work hours and work-related travel

5. Scheduling of work

 

(in 24 hours) (in 24 hours)















eg second job or long commute



> Improve job control and the other risk factors associated

with stress

> Ensure opportunies to clarify stress-related issues



> Avoid working during periods of extreme temperature

> Control exposure to hazardous substances and

environments

> Provide eecve protecve clothing and equipment,

allowing for dierent shis.

> Use heang and cooling to control ambient temperatures

to support alertness

> Provide adequate facilies for rest, sleep, meal breaks,

onsite accommodaon (if appropriate) and other essenal

requirements, such as bathroom facilies

> Install adjustable, vibraon-free seats in appropriate

machinery and vehicles

> Ensure the workplace and surroundings are well lit, safe

and secure

> Employees/workers who perform repeve manual tasks

should have regular rest breaks

> Ensure exposures are carefully monitored and exposure

levels adjusted. For example, exposure during a

10-hour shi may not equate to 1.25 mes the exposure

experienced during an eight-hour shi



1. Exposure to hazardous substances and atmospheric

contaminants

2. Exposure to noise

3. Exposure to extreme temperatures

4. Exposure to vibraon

5. Eect of exposure during extended shis



Low Risk Moderate Risk High Risk Opons

Opons

Low Risk Moderate Risk High Risk





 website: www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/minerals/safety/world-leading-ohs

This chart is based on appendix 2 of the joint worksafe vic/nsw workcover report2008. hp://www.worksafe.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/resources/le/eb87fc08b727473/vwa_fague_handbook.pdf.

 

  







 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

(night/evening/morn)

(morn/aernoon/night)

(weekly/3-4 week)



  

(working week) (working week) (working week)



 

 

 



short notice of schedule, extended

overtime on call across shift cycle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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