Fatigue facts - have we really learned anything?

摘要

It is difficult to fault the Australian Transport Safety Bureau for its prompt and comprehensive report into last year's grounding of the Chinese flagged 'Shen Neng 1' on the Great Barrier Reef shortly after leaving the port of Gladstone. As had been forecast, fatigue clearly played a prominent role in the events which led to the grounding, which seriously damaged both the coal-laden bulker and the reef itself. The management of fatigue was practically non-existent aboard the ship, as was its supervision ashore in the managers' office, while the standard of navigation aboard what was a well equipped and modern ship left much to be desired.