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Human Fatigue Risk Management Improving Safety in the Chemical Processing Industry by Matthew, S Thimgan. The book starts with a very succinct description of the consequences of lack of human fatigue risk management, and then goes into extensive detail about all the factors that are important in assessing fatigue, the impact of fatigue on human performance and incidents, and finally ends up with a very constructive management system for human fatigue. This book is a must-read for process safety and risk management professionals, human factors specialists, managers, and leaders who want to understand the underlying issues related to human fatigue risk management and effective approaches to dealing with these issues.
The Contents of Human Fatigue Risk Management
- The consequences of fatigue in the process industries
- Basics of sleep biology
- Circadian rhythms and sleep circadian interactions
- Health and Safety at Work An Essential Guide for Managers
- Sleep hygiene recommendations
- Sleep disorders
- Fatigue and human performance
- Fatigue and accidents
- Fatigue-related regulations and guidelines
- Fatigue countermeasures
- The Strategic HSE Management Programme Handbook
- Work shifts
- Work environment
- Work task design
- Employee training
- Practical industrial Safety Risk Assessment
- Compounds that alter sleep and wakefulness
- Creating a fatigue risk management system (FRMS)
- Accident investigation
