U.S. oil and gas extraction workers: fatigue, sleep, and working hours.

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• Personal Author:
  Lerman SE ; Pratt SG ; Retzer KD
• Description:
  Key Messages: 1. The U.S. oil and gas extraction (OGE) workforce works long hours and has an elevated fatality rate. . While fatigue has been shown to be a significant health and safety risk in other industries, minimal research on worker fatigue has been conducted in this workforce. 2. Regulations intended to manage fatigue among OGE workers are limited to hours-of-service (HOS) regulations, which apply only to drivers of large trucks. However, international OGE operators and the U.S. petrochemical industry recognize the workplace health and safety risks posed by fatigue and have developed guidance documents to help employers manage these risks. 3. Research is needed to quantify the impacts of worker fatigue and to examine the interactions between on- and off-the-job risk factors for fatigue in the U.S. OGE industry. Technologies and other interventions that can identify and manage fatigue need to be evaluated in this workforce, particularly among small companies with the assistance of intermediaries. 4. Further collaboration between researchers and OGE partners could lead to significant improvements in understanding the impact of fatigue and shiftwork on OGE workers and in implementing effective fatigue risk management (FRM) for both large and small companies.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Environmental Monitoring Epidemiology Health Surveys Mining Occupational Health Preceptorship Safety Surveys And Questionnaires Vehicle Emissions
• Keywords:
  Fatigue Long Work Hours Mining: Oil And Gas Extraction Oil Industry Petroleum Industry Risk Management Shift Work Sleep Work Schedules
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference/Symposia Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Idaho ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 8 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  WSD - Western States Division ; DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20058411
• Citation:
  Working Hours, Sleep, & Fatigue Forum: Meeting the Needs of American Workers and Employers, September 13-14, 2019, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Cincinnati, OH: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2019 Sep; :1-4
• Contact Point Address:
  Kyla D. Retzer, MPH, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Western States Division, Denver Federal Center Bldg. 25, Denver, CO 80225
• Email:
  kretzer@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Working Hours, Sleep, & Fatigue Forum: Meeting the Needs of American Workers and Employers, September 13-14, 2019, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:32a04509dbce229000f78b835fea7c9d2cb262b95ab7990d1ccc33fecc17ec823eaf5c062ae4d806a346e4c80f9dcaad534e66df331c33cccf7e128b7f0dc1e2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181841/cdc_181841_DS1.pdf
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