FRMS and the Accountable Executive
If you are not required to have a fatigue risk management system (FRMS), you will be soon enough. Regulators are quickly catching up to fatigue science and realizing that sleep-related fatigue poses serious risks to safety and health. I foresee a day when every single 24/7 operation will have to demonstrate exactly how they manage fatigue. Call it a fatigue risk management system, a fatigue management plan (FMP) or even an alertness management system (AMS), whatever you like, you will need to show exactly how you are managing fatigue. Over the next while, I will show you step by step how I set up an FRMS.
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