Loose lips sink driver

FATIGUE AND ELECTRONIC work diaries (EWDs) – haven’t any of these techno wizards ever studied logic? Headlines in another industry paper: ‘Now’s the time to make fatigue management electronic’. Every time I see this sort of rubbish I feel like doing a chunder. Managing compliance with fatigue rules is not managing fatigue, stupid. Managing fatigue is a different matter.

Here’s some recent information. When a responsible company management delegates a staff member to review an operator’s work diary and that staffer discovers a non-compliant entry, the accepted practice I’m told is for that non-compliance to be noted and the offending operator educated to ensure no further indiscretions are committed.