Engaging, impactful training that changes attitudes towards fatigue

Fresh Air Training delivers fatigue and alertness management workshops for all parts of the operation. We specialise in providing an impactful experience that unites management and employees towards a common goal, breaking down barriers and improving trust. Our training options can be grouped into the following categories:

Training for Management

• Executive/Senior Leadership Team

• Senior Management

 Focus: awareness of legal responsibilities, costs and benefits of effective fatigue risk management and the benefits of focusing on alertness management

Safety, Health and Wellbeing

• Safety Department

• Occupational Health

• Human Factors specialists

• Accident investigators

Focus: awareness of responsibilities, science of fatigue and alertness management, countermeasures, components of a FRMS, SPIs, tools for measuring, mitigating and managing fatigue and alertness

Operations

• Operations management

• Line Managers

• Rostering

• Auditors

• Shift Workers

• Safety critical workers

 Focus: awareness of responsibilities, science of fatigue and alertness management, individual and organisational countermeasures

Fatigue and Alertness Management Team

• Fatigue/Alertness Safety Action Group

• Fatigue Working Group / Alertness Management Group

• Fatigue / Alertness Champions

 Focus: awareness of responsibilities, responsibilities of the FSAG, science of fatigue and alertness management, countermeasures, components of a FRMS, SPIs, data collection to inform understanding of effectiveness of processes and the FRMS

Our Approach: Manage Alertness  

Our focus is on managing alertness—a positive, desirable state. We find that providing strategies for managing and improving alertness is a far more proactive approach than simply concentrating on fatigue, a negative, emotive subject that employees are often reluctant to report.

Fatigue is an inevitable by-product of working at times of the day when humans are naturally at their least alert, or when they have been awake for extended periods, or have had less sleep than they need for several days in a row: all of which are common experiences for shift workers. 

But by the time an employee is reporting that they are too fatigued to operate, there is little that can be done except remove them from duty. Consequently, solutions (e.g. training, reporting systems) that focus only on managing fatigue are likely to be reactive and of limited long-term value.

Fresh Air Classroom Training Programmes:

• are delivered by specialists who have trained management, safety representatives and rostering teams as well as inspectors from regulatory authorities from around the world

• are fully compliant with all regulatory and industry guidance. (e.g. for aviation - ICAO Annex 6 Pt 1, EASA AMC1 ORO.FTL.250; for rail - ORR guidance and the Network Rail Standard on fatigue risk management - NR/L2/OHS/003)

• are tailored to reflect the specific operational practices and fatigue contributors of each operator

• provide training for the Safety Department, rostering and crew planning, managers with overall responsibility for managing employee fatigue, as well as for employees themselves

• include in-depth training for in-company audit teams and investigators.

For more information, or to arrange a demonstration of our training programmes please contact us.