A Fatigue Risk Management System Dashboard for High-Risk Occupational Settings

Abstract

Worker fatigue is one of the contributing factors to safety risks that has caused several accidents and injuries in the oil and gas sector. Several oil and gas companies have utilized Safety Management Systems (SMSs) and Fatigue Risk Management Systems (FRMSs) to track worker fatigue; however, many systems do not provide enough information to support supervisory-level decisions, highlighting the need for SMS and FMRS dashboards based on user-centered design principles. A longitudinal study was conducted with 70 participants to determine (a) significant fatigue predictors in an offshore setting, (b) create a SMS and FRMS dashboard, and (c) revise the dashboard based on feedback from interviews with subject matter experts in the oil and gas domain. This led to a dashboard that provided main, crew, individual, and crew comparison interfaces, with each interface providing incidents, fatigue level, safety culture, and readiness features. Each interface provided a graphical trend of the features across the year, month, and week, along with a summary of the metrics. An “Action Tab” was included in the fatigue section to provide supervisors with various fatigue mitigation techniques to aid in reducing fatigue-related incidents and promote worker well-being. This dashboard provides decision makers in the offshore environments with actionable information to assess worker fatigue and support supervisory-level decisions to improve worker safety through incident tracking and actionable fatigue mitigation techniques.

Keywords

worker fatigue oil and gas industry safety management systems (SMS)fatigue risk management systems (FRMS)offshore workers fatigue predictors user-centered design fatigue mitigation supervisory decision-making

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