Survey to better understand fatigue at sea

Fatigue is a safety hazard across all sectors of the transport industry that impairs people’s performance, health and wellbeing. Fatigue impacts safety and may lead to accidents.

Marine accident investigations often attribute fatigue as a contributory factor to accidents with conditions leading to fatigue having serious impacts on the safety and welfare of people working at sea.

So far, most studies on fatigue at sea are limited to international seagoing vessels. AMSA is conducting a study using a domestic commercial vessel fatigue survey to collect information on fatigue awareness and experiences in the Australian industry. Data collection will be done across a period of three months

Our survey is intended to gain insight into the level of awareness about fatigue, so we can develop effective guidance on managing the risk.

It’s important that people working at sea and associated organisations have their say in our survey by sharing experiences in coping with the issue, so better management practices can be developed for the safety and health of all crews.

The following individuals and organisations are invited to take part in the survey:

• masters and crew in working in the domestic commercial vessel industry

• seafarer welfare organisations

• training providers

• unions

• peak bodies and industry groups

• domestic commercial vessel owners and operators.

The domestic commercial vessel fatigue survey is anonymous and will be open for three months from 18 July 2019. No personal information will be collected or used for any other purpose.

Complete the survey at surveymonkey.com/r/Q596VCQ