Best not to sleep on it!

摘要

Publication of the Project MARTHA report in June threw up a number of very interesting observations that the shipping industry would do well to heed. The initiative was set up to develop a Fatigue Risk Management System and to provide fatigue awareness training, fatigue prediction models, reporting systems as well as advise on corrective actions to take to minimise or eradicate incidents of fatigue. And the findings were startling with issues such as job security; environmental factors; job demands; sleep quality; irregular work hours; the amount of rest hours; and new regulations which could place more requirements on seafarers all contributing to fatigue.