Fatigue Risk Assessment
Fatigue is a recognised hazard in a variety of workplaces, particularly those that require their workforce to work extended hours or shift work. Where there is an identified fatigue risk there is a legislative obligation to assess and to control risks to as low as reasonably practicable. Our fatigue risk assessment will provide your organisation with four distinct phases that will provide a detailed and systematic approach in the reduction to fatigue risk.
We conduct Fatigue Risk Assessments in the following industries:
- Utilities
- Transport and Logistics
- Construction
- Mining
- Agriculture
- Rail
- ...and more
Desktop Audit
Desk top audit of current (and proposed) shift systems and operational procedures to ensure compliance with legislative requirements, codes of practice and/or guidelines in relation to risk minimization
Inform & Educate
Introductory presentation to engage fatigue review team (management representative/s, WHS committee representatives)
Risk Assessment Workshop
Facilitation of fatigue review workshop (including representatives of the effected work group)
Report
Present a final report of the fatigue risk assessment & recommendations to management.
- Maximum work hour caps
- Scheduled breaks
- Work hour monitoring and alerts
- Smoking
- Nutrition
- Alcohol
- Physical Activity
- Stress (Mental health)
- Health surveillance
- Obesity
- Sleep
- Home & social commitments
- Task rotation
- Self-pacing of work
- Task sharing
- Controlled work environments (e.g temp, respite areas)
- Traffic division
- Comprehensive fatigue training
- Point-in-time fatigue self assessments (Check)
- Warning alarms
- Lane departure
- Proximity sensors
- Infra-red camera
- Car pooling
- Supervision or Buddying observations
- Supervisor training
Risk Assessment Approach
Our Fatigue Risk Assessment utilises a comprehensive risk-based approach which complies with legislative responsibilities to provide for controlling risks associated with fatigue. It is a systematic, multilayer approach to reviewing work and non-work related fatigue hazards, analysis of risk, identification of current mitigation strategies, development of recommendations for additional controls and the development of a risk treatment plan. This risk treatment plan is then used to guide the review of operational policy and procedures.
Make sure your Fatigue Risk Management System is comprehensive
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Fatigue Management
Risk Assessment Platform
To ensure fatigue risk management processes are specified, implemented, monitored and verified against know guidance material Ethos Health has developed a Fatigue Risk Assessment platform that organisations can subscribe to so they can conduct their own comprehensive risk assessments which can be subsequently reviewed by one of our subject experts.
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Assess, monitor and control fatigue risk by using FatigueTech
