Working Hours and Fatigue in Aviation Maintenance
the Engineering Maintenance Group
of the RAeS Human Factors Group
at RAF Bentley Priory, Stanmore, near Watford, North London
24 & 25th October 2002
The seminar addressed issues associated with aviation maintenance personnel working hours, shiftwork and fatigue, including papers from speakers followed by a workshop. A human factors calendar, featuring the MARSS “dirty dozen”, was distributed to each delegate. Further copies are available for purchase (funds to support future RAeS-HFG conferences)
Contents
Meeting notes including programme
Presentations
Fatigue Theory – Mick Spencer, Qinetiq
Working Time Legislation – Anne Stuart
Offshore Shiftwork: Presentation and Paper – Bob Miles, HSE
Fatigue; A European Industry Perspective – Evangelos Demosthenous, Aircraft Engineers International
Implementing FRMS – Drew Dawson, Centre for Sleep Research, University of Southern Australia
Recommendations for the Work Hours of UK Aircraft Maintenance Personnel: Presentation and Report – Simon Folkard, University of Wales
Engineer Working Hours – The Future UK SMS CAG Work Programme – Simon Witts
UKOTG proposal (1999)
Summing up – Cliff Edwards, Chair, HFG Engineering Maintenance HF SG
Note:
All reproduction rights are reserved by the author(s). Information and papers presented here are not intended for sale or redistribution without written consent from their authors.
Work Hours of Aircraft Maintenance Personnel, by Simon Folkard D.Sc.: The report by Professor Simon Folkard on Work Hours of Aircraft Maintenance Personnel was issued on July 16th 2002. This report contains the results of an independent study carried out by Professor Folkard and funded by the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The work was commissioned largely in response to concerns expressed via the Confidential Human Factors Incident Reporting Programme (CHIRP) that excessive hours worked by some maintenance personnel posed an aviation safety risk.
The report is a scientific paper concerning the subject of work hours and fatigue. Please note that the recommendations are those of the author, Professor Folkard, and do not at this stage constitute formal, or informal, CAA policy regarding duty time limitations for maintenance personnel. The CAA is reviewing the paper and its conclusions with a view to further action which will be discussed with industry. In due course the paper may be issued as a CAA paper.
Prof. Drew Dawson, Extended Work Hours in Australia – Counting the Costs.
Fatigue Expert Group: Options for Regulatory Approach to Fatigue in Drivers of Heavy Vehicles in Australia and New Zealand.