ATS.OR.315 Fatigue

EFFECTS OF FATIGUE Guidance material on fatigue and its effects on safety-relevant aviation professionals may be found in Chapter 2 ‘Scientific principles for fatigue management’ of ICAO Doc 9966 ‘Manual for the Oversight of Fatigue Management Approaches’, second edition 2016.

FATIGUE MANAGEMENT POLICY

(a)The air traffic controllers’ fatigue management policy should:

(1)declare the commitment to proactively and systematically monitor and manage fatigue and describe the expected benefits for the safety of operations;

(2)be signed by the accountable manager;

(3)address the mitigation of the operational impact of air traffic controllers’ fatigue;

(4)be communicated, with visible endorsement, throughout the air traffic control service provider;

(5)include a commitment to:

(i)consider the best practices;

(ii)provide appropriate resources; and

(iii)enforce fatigue management as a responsibility of managers, staff involved in fatigue management procedures and air traffic controllers;

(6)be periodically reviewed to ensure it remains relevant and appropriate.

(b)In accordance with the policy in point (a), the air traffic control service provider should establish and implement:

(1)principles and procedures to enable fatigue reporting;

(2)principles and procedures for occurrence investigation and analysis to consider fatigue as contributing factor;

(3)procedures for the identification and management of the effect of fatigue on the safety of operations.

INFORMATION PROGRAMMES Information programmes may consist of lectures, leaflets, posters, CDs, and any other informative material to raise the awareness of the effects of fatigue on the individuals and on air traffic control service provision, and to advise on the need and the means to manage it. When choosing the most appropriate information programme and the medium, the air traffic control service provider should evaluate the level of awareness of its staff of fatigue management, the type of operations (e.g. single-person operations, nightshifts), and the periodicity of human factors training in the scope of refresher training.

INFORMATION PROGRAMMES Scientific material proposed as guidance for information programmes on fatigue may be found in the document ‘Fatigue and Sleep Management: Personal strategies for decreasing the effects of fatigue in air traffic control’ (Brussels: Human Factors Management Business Division (DAS/HUM), EUROCONTROL, 2005).