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38 C h a p t e r 5 The information collected and analyzed in the team's field research and reviews of fatigue research from other work domains needs to be viewed in the context of the highway construction industry. This industry has a set of established practices and operational constraints that will influence how fatigue risk management is carried out.
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39 than in construction companies. The largest project the team investigated is a $350 million, 3-year program, based on a joint venture between two large companies; this project was served by one full-time safety officer.
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40 mile construction for different pavement types in order to estimate labor requirements for rapid renewal projects. The team's general finding was that there is considerable uncertainty in making these types of forecasts, because of changes in economic outlook and the level of granularity available in the data.
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41 (CA4PRS; http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/research/deployment/ ca4prs.cfm)
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42 Training Needs As indicated in the preceding section, the team estimates that 25,000 to 29,000 highway construction personnel will be engaged in rapid renewal work at some point over the next 10 years, and thus that is the number of workers that the team estimates could benefit from fatigue-oriented training. The working group members who have responded to the project's request for comments suggest these estimates may be low, given the increasing backlog of maintenance work to be done.
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43 where • M is the number of deaths (or injuries, etc.) attributable to a cause; • P is the population at risk (in this case, the number of highway construction workers)
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44 The baseline rates for injuries, fatalities, or other incidents are not available from other national sources. Injury and fatality rates reported by the BLS, by OSHA, and others are overall rates, and sufficient information to decompose these rates into partial rates by any work schedule element (e.g., nights versus days, overtime versus non-overtime)
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45 of their longer schedules. The number of expected injured due to fatigue is much higher using this approach.
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