This course provides the foundation for airline management, air crew and civil aviation regulators to understand the scientific discoveries and changes in the management of the risk posed by air crew fatigue.

Course details

Duration: 3 days (24 hours)
Recommended level: Entry-level and Professional
Prerequisites: None

What you will learn

• Understand the evolution from the application of prescriptive rules for air crew flight time limitations (FTL) and flight duty limitations (FDL) to performance based fatigue risk management
• The roles of ICAO, IATA and IFALPA in FRMS
• How to build a collaborative approach between airline management, air crew and the regulator
• Understand how a Fatigue Risk Management System (FRMS) can be integrated into a Safety Management System (SMS)
• Be a change agent to improve safety though implementing a FRMS

Who should attend

• Air crew
• Airline operations managers
• Safety Managers from airlines and Civil Aviation Authorities

Key topics

• Description of a Fatigue Risk Management System
• Traditional air crew fatigue risk management
• The benefits of introducing FRMS
• Lessons from science: sleep science; circadian rhythms; shift work; jet lag; the use of bio-mathematical models; measuring crew member fatigue
• FRMS policy and documentation including numerous examples of FRMS policy statements
• The steps in Fatigue Risk Management Processes
• FRMS Safety Assurance Processes
• FRMS promotion including Training Programs
• FRMS Implementation
• How to build the culture of trust for a collaborative approach to FRMS implementation
• Reference material: “Fatigue Risk Management Systems, Implementation Guide for Operations, 1st Edition, July 2011’; ICAO Annex 6, Part 1

Course dates

October 10 - 12, 2012