Keynote Address

Our keynote speaker will discuss Fatigue in Air Traffic Operations specifically focusing on opportunities to enhance safety.

Fatigue is a complex state resulting from insufficient sleep, extended wakefulness, or circadian disruption. It can result in performance impairment, as well as harm in terms of poor physical and mental health. How work is designed, organised, and managed also affects the subjective level of fatigue experienced. These work-related factors constitute psychosocial risks. Both Impairment and psychosocial risks are associated with significant health and safety risks that an organisation is obligated to manage to ensure that work does not harm. Given the complexity of fatigue in relation to its dual nature – it can be both a cause and outcome – its subjectivity, and unreliability of measurement, the management of fatigue is a wicked challenge. A wicked problem is one that is difficult to solve due to its complexity. They require adaptive not technical solutions.

Session Objectives:

• To explore the “wicked aspects” of fatigue and the use of the better work by design process to address these aspects