Need, Effectiveness, and Awareness about Fatigue Risk Management System (FRMS) in Aviation Industry

NEED, EFFECTIVENESS, AND AWARENESS ABOUT Fatigue Risk Management
System (FRMS) IN AVIATION INDUSTRY
NEED,
EFFECTIVENESS, AND
AWARENESS ABOUT
Fatigue Risk
Management System
(FRMS) IN AVIATION
INDUSTRY
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NEED, EFFECTIVENESS, AND AWARENESS ABOUT Fatigue Risk Management
System (FRMS) IN AVIATION INDUSTRY
Abstract
Aviation safety is an important issue because air traffic is increasing by each day. Aviation
sector across the world is growing rapidly and causing an acute shortage of highly skilled
pilots. This is why the majority of the pilots are overworked and fatigue is emerging as a
major problem and giving rise to a complicated situation. The presence of the fatigue in a
pilot can slow down his reflexes and reaction time and invite accidents. Concerned
organizations like Aviation Organization (ICAO) issued fresh guidelines related to the
Fatigue Risk Management System (FRMS) in the year 2008. Agencies like the International
Air Transport Association are constantly busy in collecting data with an intention to improve
the guidelines associated with the fatigue. The article reference’s highlights about the first
ever reported case in the history of aviation where fatigue was diagnosed as a reason behind a
crash. November 17, 2009, aircraft Pel-Air Westwind II VH-NGA, met with an accident, the
crew claimed that their reflexes were down because they were suffering from fatigue. The
entire paper illustrates about the need of FRMS and the awareness strategies that aviation
industry has adopted to mitigate the issues about fatigue. Where a fatigue risk management
system is in the place the improvements of it have been gathered and also noted in well-
being, personal health and cost and safety.
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NEED, EFFECTIVENESS, AND AWARENESS ABOUT Fatigue Risk Management
System (FRMS) IN AVIATION INDUSTRY
Aviation safety is an important issue because air traffic is increasing by each day.
Aviation sector across the world is growing rapidly and causing an acute shortage of highly
skilled pilots. This is why the majority of the pilots are overworked and fatigue is emerging
as a major problem and giving rise to a complicated situation. The presence of the fatigue in
a pilot can slow down his reflexes and reaction time and invite accidents. Concerned
organizations like Aviation Organization (ICAO) issued fresh guidelines related to the
Fatigue Risk Management System (FRMS) in the year 2008. Agencies like the International
Air Transport Association are constantly busy in collecting data with an intention to improve
the guidelines associated with the fatigue.
Let’s have a look at one of the crash analysis that was written in the year 1993 this
analysis reads. “The impaired judgment, failure to execute an immediate action, improper
assessment of landing conditions and improper decision making” This analysis was written
for “DC-8-61 aircraft” crash in Cuba (Cook, 2018). This crash analysis report became a part
of aviation history because of the mention of a new word Fatigue. It was the first ever
reported case in the history of aviation where fatigue was diagnosed as a reason behind a
crash. November 17, 2009, aircraft Pel-Air Westwind II VH-NGA, met with an accident, the
crew claimed that their reflexes were down because they were suffering from fatigue. This
again is an important report because the pilots himself confessed that they were under the
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NEED, EFFECTIVENESS, AND AWARENESS ABOUT Fatigue Risk Management
System (FRMS) IN AVIATION INDUSTRY
influence of fatigue (B.Cook, 2018). This crash analysis report became a part of aviation
history because of the mention of a new word Fatigue.
In order to prevent such conditions, tools like FRMS can be introduced more strictly
in this sector. The evolution of FRMS, hardships that companies are facing in the process of
the implementation of FRMS, the role of FRMS in bringing down the number of the mishaps,
are few questions that need an answer. A collective study of various secondary sources can
help anyone in understanding the crux of the issue and deliver a status report that can act as a
vital document for this industry sector.
FRMS implementation, evolution, and hardships that companies are facing in the
process of the implementation, its role in bringing down the number of the mishaps, how it
can add a new strength in the existing security guidelines of the aviation sector. The current
implementation of FRMS is adequate or room for improvement is present are the few
questions that demand an answer. A collective study of various secondary sources can help
anyone in understanding the crux of the issue and deliver a status report that can act as a vital
document for this industry sector.
Officially, it has been acknowledging that pilots and crew member’s poor
performance was an outcome of fatigue. It was the first ever reported case in the history of
aviation where fatigue was diagnosed as a reason behind a crash. November 17, 2009, aircraft
Pel-Air Westwind II VH-NGA, met with an accident, the crew claimed that their reflexes
were down because they were suffering from fatigue. This again is an important report
because the pilots himself confessed that they were under the influence of fatigue (B.Cook,
2018).
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