Fatigue Case Study

I. Introduction
“Fatigue effects are closely related to the effects of sleep deprivation. The importance of such long term effects suggests that the time required for recovery may be a useful method of quantifying severity of fatigue.” C. Cameron (October 2012) Australia, A Theory of Fatigue. Through the exertion of effort, physical and mental effort, our body needs to recover.
Fatigue throughout the years of the maritime industry it already have faced problems about fatigue wherein it led to disasters, disasters and cathosthropic events that led to the loss of lives and oil spills that harmed the marine environment.
One of these events is the famous Exxon Valdez, it spilled more than 11 million gallons of crude oil in Alaska’s Prince William

Almost everyone experiences fatigue every day, blurring the line between the normal occurrence of fatigue and the pathological symptom of CRF. Despite a large body of research that has shed light on the problem of CRF and its management, there are gaps in our scientific understanding of this symptom.” (June, 2010) ASCPRO Recommendations for the Assessment of Fatigue. The risk of a vessel that is operated by a fatigued crew will be very dangerous. The shipping industry’s technical and specialized nature requires intense concentration and constant alertness; the industry does not have room for any mistakes because a mistake can take a toll on someone’s life or damage to the vessel. Majority of seafarers experiences

There are no nurse or doctors on board our ship that can take care of you when your health comes to a life and death situation, so let’s not make it go there.
Fatigue’s effects on work performance have been identified by many studies and research projects (Smith, 1999), among which four major effects are summarized as follows:
(a) The first effect is the individual’s reduced awareness and poor memory causing the loss of information, data and the ignorance of operating steps. Fatigued seafarers may become more susceptible to errors of memory.
(b) The second effect is the high degree of risk undertaken by the seafarer in difficult tasks during the voyage. A fatigued seafarer usually selects strategies that have a high degree of risk on the basis that they require less effort to execute, which might subsequently lead to wrong decisions.
(c) The third effect is that fatigue can impact an individual’s initiatives to react to the driving force in the work. A fatigued seafarer may become less motivated in their job contributing consequently to poor performance at