Managing occupational alertness makes good business sense.

We provide advice, tools, training and support to any organisation that wishes to protect their employees and their business performance from the effects of employee fatigue. Clients may expect a return on their investment and benefit from a more harmonious organisational climate.

What to do in most circumstances is often relatively easy to define  and many sources of information are easily found to offer ‘What’ advice.

How to do it is the hard bit; how to judge the strength of each action and timings. How to approach stakeholders and keep them on side. How to create the right environment for change. The ‘How’ is the minefield where an experienced mentor who has done it before can be invaluable saving money, time, relationships and embarrassment.

FRMSc have decades of experience working on the front line and cutting edge of each component of fatigue risk management systems. We know the ‘What‘ and ‘How’ and from bitter experience know what works what doesn’t.

To scope out an FRMS implementation programme, we recommend the initial step should be to conduct a gap analysis to discover how much of the process is already in existence (even informally) and the right initial, pertinent steps to take for each enterprise.

A 5 level process towards maturity

Our processes guide an organisation through 5 levels of maturity that continually reduce risk and enhance employee well-being, safety and business performance.

At the beginning, the organisation at level 1 is dependent upon heroes managing their own fatigue issues in their own way. At the very top level 5, a culture and system of continuous improvement is thriving; overseen by a Fatigue Management Action Group maintaining and improving the organisation’s ability to predict and mitigate fatigue issues.

Metrics and Measurement means Management

Measurement and data collection are at the heart of any management process. We measure fatigue both subjectively and objectively in our fatigue studies and use the outputs to design and develop bespoke fatigue risk management systems for each of our clients. We provide access to predictive bio mathematical models for rapid roster assessment and ongoing data collection and analysis.

We help business leaders too as no regulator can stop entrepreneurs from working 24 hours a day and making judgemental mistakes that we know from our research and experience, will be made with growing tiredness.

There is a phasing to all alertness projects that is captured well in the ICAO approach to managing alertness. This, like many management processes like it, is predicated on their being a standard to work to.

FRMSc contributed as team members to the task force that wrote the ICAO guidelines on managing fatigue. Accordingly, we use that document as one, but not the only one, of the basic processes of our work to introduce Best Practise FRMS into an organisation. Mostly, we use our decade long experience of implementing FRMS.

Please visit our website pages on Implementing FRMS or contact us to discuss how we can help your organisation manage your alertness issues.