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5This section describes adaptations of organizational practices for fatigue risk management that are more appropriate for an industry with considerable operational diversity, such as highway construction, with a focus on monitoring and mitigation. The approaches described in this section are meant to be fl exible and adaptive so that they can apply to a broad range of organizational size and complexity.
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6GUIDE TO IDENTIFYING AND REDUCING WORKFORCE FATIGUE IN RAPID RENEWAL PROJECTS and mitigations and for appropriate places in which management processes might be inserted to address the problem. Existing safety processes that may be adapted and extended to the worker fatigue problem include incident investigation and reporting and worker input procedures.
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7GUIDE TO IDENTIFYING AND REDUCING WORKFORCE FATIGUE IN RAPID RENEWAL PROJECTS cases) , but also for reinforcing messages and business practices.
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8GUIDE TO IDENTIFYING AND REDUCING WORKFORCE FATIGUE IN RAPID RENEWAL PROJECTS ANALYZE FATIGUE RISK TRAJECTORY To facilitate the process of dispelling erroneous beliefs about the problem of fatigue, use an analytic framework that clearly shows fatigue is a cause of safety issues. The fatigue risk trajectory (Figure 2.2)
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9GUIDE TO IDENTIFYING AND REDUCING WORKFORCE FATIGUE IN RAPID RENEWAL PROJECTS correctly. Due to schedule pressures or lack of personnel to verify the placement of traffic routing diversions or conditions such as poor visibility or rain, errors are not noticed and the result is vehicle incursion into the work zone with resulting injuries.
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10 GUIDE TO IDENTIFYING AND REDUCING WORKFORCE FATIGUE IN RAPID RENEWAL PROJECTS Fatigue profiles such as this are also useful for evaluating napping opportunities -- when they might occur in the work shift and what the impact on fatigue levels would be. For example, if there is a desire to reduce peak fatigue prior to driving home after a night shift, fatigue profiles can be used to show the increase of fatigue throughout the night and provide comparative profiles with and without naps.
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11 GUIDE TO IDENTIFYING AND REDUCING WORKFORCE FATIGUE IN RAPID RENEWAL PROJECTS after mid-shift naps, rest breaks from the work flow, and using scheduling to try to accommodate individuals who have varying susceptibility to fatigue. One potential approach to a work break is to consume a caffeinated beverage just before a 30-min nap, and at the end of the nap the caffeine will be starting to take effect.
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12 GUIDE TO IDENTIFYING AND REDUCING WORKFORCE FATIGUE IN RAPID RENEWAL PROJECTS In order to better understand specific project fatigue problems, safety incidents should be investigated with the fatigue factor in mind, including whether individuals worked many successive night shifts without a break, a weekend closure was involved, or individual workers were experiencing sleep restriction or sleep problems. Commuting accidents, although technically not occurring during duty hours, can sometimes be related to fatigue from night work and are especially likely during rush traffic in the morning.
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13 GUIDE TO IDENTIFYING AND REDUCING WORKFORCE FATIGUE IN RAPID RENEWAL PROJECTS Figure 2.4. Integrated elements of a Fatigue Risk Management System (FRMS)
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