Development of web resource on fatigue for the rail industry in GB
Dan Basacik
RSSB
Dan is a Lead Human Factors Specialist at the Rail Safety and Standards Board - RSSB - in London. Prior to RSSB, he worked at the UK’s Transport Research Laboratory. In his time at RSSB Dan has worked on projects to do with signals passed at danger, passenger safety at station platforms and road user behaviour at level crossings. His focus in recent years has been on getting good human factors data from incident investigations. He has recently been tasked with scoping and developing RSSB’s human factors work on the topic of fatigue and alertness.
Abstract
A significant amount of research has been carried out around fatigue and fatigue risk management (FRM) in the rail industry in GB. This research has led to ORR and RSSB guidance and a variety of materials to support companies... [ view full abstract ]
A significant amount of research has been carried out around fatigue and fatigue risk management (FRM) in the rail industry in GB. This research has led to ORR and RSSB guidance and a variety of materials to support companies implementing the guidance.
Currently railway specific information is available from a range of different sources: on SPARK, RSSB webpages, RGSonline, ORR and HSE webpages. Also, the information is mainly in the form of reports and is not focused or directed at the different roles in the industry involved in the management of fatigue This means that it can be a challenge for members to become aware of the full range of materials that are available to them and where to look for these materials.
At the 3rd RSSB Fatigue Risk Management Forum industry representatives identified the need to pull all of the existing information on FRM together in one place and work on how it is presented, in order to address its underutilisation. The RSSB website refresh programme provided an opportunity to create such a web resource for the rail industry in GB.
The work will involve creating a detailed inventory of existing fatigue related materials, identifying key user groups, and analysing and their information needs. Different options for meeting those information needs will be considered. Good practices employed in other industries’ fatigue web resources will be identified and will inform the proposed approach. The analysis will initially be desk-based and will later be developed and prioritised through a survey of users. Initial results of the survey will be presented at the conference. These results will inform the development of wireframes and content for fatigue section of the RSSB website, through an iterative, user-centred approach.
Authors
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Dan Basacik
(RSSB)
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Ann Mills
(RSSB)
Topic Area
Fatigue risk management, work hours, breaks, shift work and on-call work
Session
PIS-1 » Poster Introduction Session (17:10 - Monday, 6th November, Illuminate)
