Addressing Pilot Well-being: A Holistic Perspective on Sleep and Family
The recent Batik Air flight that veered off course due to both pilots falling asleep provides a reminder as to the role that personal lives have on fatigue.
A bio-mathematical model for employees exposed to fatigue hazards when working shift rotations
FRI was originally commissioned by the UK Government Health & Safety Executive (HSE) and previously available from the HSE in an Excel spreadsheet. FRMSc has enhanced the speed, power, connectivity and user experience into the FRI+ model. FRI+ provides identical outputs to the original version but with a significantly improved interface, increased schedule capacity, a more robust approach and a better user experience.
The original HSE version of FRI that was researched and developed by the team at FRMSc is no longer supported.
FRI is the standard adopted for the UK rail industry, aligning with RSSB and Network Rail regulations for fatigue risk management across all staff and subcontractors. FRMSc has been providing it to clients for over 10 years. In an independent review, the UK Rail Safety and Standards Board assessed FRI’s empirical model to be the most comprehensive fatigue and risk model available.
Our enhanced FRIPRO will be released soon. It has been designed to meet the needs of the FRM or Safety Manager. FRIPRO includes many of the features available in the SAFE and CARE aviation models including variable workload, fatigue scores every 15 minutes of duty and visible sleep periods. FRIPRO can also be connected to the HARVEST analytics package for greater oversight and analysis.
Commissioned by the UK Health and Safety Executive and evaluated and endorsed by the UK Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) and Network Rail. Used by rail companies world wide.
Developed from decades of original research and used extensively for shift work. Supports in-duty breaks and time on task variables.
FRI+ and FRIPRO are hosted on scalable cloud systems allowing thousands of schedules to be analysed rapidly. APIs available to connect with scheduling and timesheet software systems.
Supports “what if” scenarios to test new operational models and working patterns to meet varying workload and staff availability.
User interface provides visualisation of fatigue and risk profiles, manual editing of rosters for fine tuning and detailed analytics
The FRI+ and FRIPRO biomathematical model platform provides unparalleled cost/performance for analysing fatigue in shift worker schedules.
Rosters can be uploaded directly or integrated into rostering systems to take an automatic feed for analysis. Workload and alertness levels can be varied for each duty to take into account job and task differences.
The FRI+ output has also been enhanced providing more detailed outputs as well as the ability to optimise schedules within the user interface.
The recent Batik Air flight that veered off course due to both pilots falling asleep provides a reminder as to the role that personal lives have on fatigue.
The closure of Niger’s airspace earlier this month has further narrowed the corridors available to airline operations. On 7th August 2023, the military junta in Niger announced the closure, citing the possibility of military intervention from neighbouring states. As the closure happened without warning, dozens of aircraft had to be rerouted around the closed airspace