During the 1980s, the National Transportation Safety Board investigated several aviation, highway, and marine accidents that involved operator fatigue. Following completion of these accident investigations, the Safety Board in 1989 issued three recommendations to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) addressing needed research, education, and revisions to hours-of-service regulations. Ten years have passed since these safety recommendations were issued. In the interim, the Safety Board has issued more than 70 additional recommendations to the DOT, States, Industry, and industry associations to reduce the incidence of fatigue-related accidents. In response to the three 1989 recommendations, the DOT and the modal administrations have, in general, acted and responded positively to the recommendations addressing research and education; little action, however, has occurred with respect to revising the hours-of-service regulations. Nevertheless, the Safety Board believes that support has grown in recent years to make substantive changes to these regulations. This report provides an update on the activities and efforts by the DOT and the modal administrations to address operator fatigue and, consequently, the progress that has been made in the past 10 years to implement the actions called for in the three intermodal recommendations and other fatigue-related recommendations. The report also provides some background information on current hours-of-service regulations, fatigue, and the effects of fatigue on transportation safety.
National Transportation Safety Board Safety Report: Evaluation of U.S. Department of Transportation Efforts in the 1990s to Address Operator Fatigue
1999
112 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Transportation Safety , Road Transportation , Motor carriers , Program evaluation , Fatigue , Transportation safety , Commercial transportation , Human factors , Transportation industries , Sleed deprevation , Accident investigations , Regulations , Recommendations , Research , Education , Revisions , Behavior , Operator fatigue , House-of-service , Work schedules , Department of Transportations , Federal safety regulations
National Transportation Safety Board
Online Contents | 1998
National Transportation Safety Board
Online Contents | 1998