Abstract
Existing risk assessment tools are not effective or sustainable in identifying Oil and Gas Extraction (OGE) workers at high risk of fatigue-related injuries or incidents. We developed a comprehensive Fatigue Risk Assessment and Management in high-risk Environments (FRAME) survey through an industry-academic participatory approach. The FRAME survey was developed through: (1) systematic gathering of existing fatigue scales; (2) refining the inventory using the Delphi Consensus technique; and (3) further refinement through employee/worker focus groups. The participatory approach resulted in a final FRAME survey across four fatigue dimensions—sleep, shiftwork, physical, and mental fatigue, and was composed of 26 items. The FRAME survey was founded on occupational fatigue science and refined and tailored to the OGE industry, through rigorous industry stakeholder input, for safer, effective, practical, and sustainable fatigue assessment and management efforts.
Highlights
Fatigue plays a vast role in all industries in terms of performance, safety, and productivity and is continually ranked among the top five human factors issues year after year [1]
It is estimated that fatigue costs more than $18 billion per year in lost productivity alone, of which 84% is due to reduced performance at work, rather than absenteeism [2]
Fatigue was identified as a contributing factor as some operators had been working 12-h shifts for as many as 29 consecutive days
Summary
Fatigue plays a vast role in all industries in terms of performance, safety, and productivity and is continually ranked among the top five human factors issues year after year [1]. It is estimated that fatigue costs more than $18 billion per year in lost productivity alone, of which 84% is due to reduced performance at work, rather than absenteeism [2]. Fatigue was identified as a contributing factor as some operators had been working 12-h shifts for as many as 29 consecutive days. Another major incident was the Piper Alpha oil platform disaster that resulted in the deaths of 167 workers [4]. Due to the lack of consistent, sufficient, and effective incident reporting methods, it is difficult to estimate the extent to which fatigue has contributed to oil and gas extraction (OGE) incidents and injuries [5,6,7]. It is estimated that up to 80% of industrial accidents and incidents are due to human errors, for which fatigue was often partly responsible [5]
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