ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — The American Waterways Operators, the national advocate for the tugboat, towboat and barge industry, has released a new safety resource: Developing a Fatigue Risk Management Plan: A Guide for Towing Vessel Operators. The guide, produced under the leadership of AWO’s Fatigue Risk Management Working Group, is the latest milestone in AWO’s two-decade effort to reduce the risk of fatigue-related accidents in the towing industry, working in cooperation with the U.S. Coast Guard, the National Transportation Safety Board, and internationally renowned sleep experts. Designed to help towing companies take a proactive approach to fatigue prevention by incorporating fatigue risk management plans into their safety management systems, the guide was recently endorsed by the Coast Guard-AWO Safety Partnership’s National Quality Steering Committee.
Fatigue risk management plans take a comprehensive, customized approach to addressing fatigue risk factors within a company, as recommended by the National Transportation Safety Board and the National Academy of Sciences’ Transportation Research Board. The…
