Pilot Fatigue in India: Insights from 2024 Safety Culture Survey
The Safety Matters Foundation conducted the first Safety Culture Survey ever in India in 2020. Fatigue was identified as a safety concern. In 2022, the foundation conducted the second Safety Culture survey. The main aim was to determine how much fatigue had affected pilots in India. The result shows that the pilots suffer from severe excessive daytime sleepiness, while many pilots self-assessed moderate daytime sleepiness. Many pilots responded ‘yes ’ to whether they had fallen asleep without the planning/consent of the other pilot or experienced microsleep episodes.
Having identified fatigue as a significant threat to flight safety and the extent to which pilots in India had been affected, a third and concluding Safety Culture survey was conducted in July 2024 to determine the factors that influence fatigue amongst pilots in India.
Five hundred thirty respondents marked an online survey form from 16-22 July 2024. The form is divided into seven parts.
- Nature of flight operations
- Personal information
- Effect of working status on fatigue
- Effect of working conditions on fatigue
- Effect of workload on fatigue
- Effect of work schedules on fatigue
- Details and comments
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