HFSY359 Fatigue Management Tutor Mark Assignment (TMA) Question 2026 | SUSS

HFSY359 TMA Question

Question 1

GOLDTOWER is a large construction company that has multiple worksites where construction of condominiums and shopping malls are on-going. The workers at this company are exposed to numerous working hazards and recently, the company has experienced several near misses as well as accidents at the workplace (some examples below).

They have decided to engage you, as their safety consultant, to develop a fatigue risk management programme for them. In your interview with them, you have ascertained the following:

Their worker schedule is as follows:

• Shift A: 7.30 am – 4.00 pm
• Shift B: 3.00 pm – 11.00 pm
• Shift C: 10.30 pm – 10.30 am

Schedule: [BBBAAAAOCCCCCO] [BBBAAAAOCCCCCO]

Two consecutive rotations are shown
O = off day
Their workers work at heights at the site. They have had several slip, trip and fall injuries in the past year with the most severe having a broken ankle.

• The company operates heavy trucks, industrial vehicles and cranes at the sites. They have had several incidents on Shift A and C, with several vehicular accidents at the sites reported to the authorities over the last year as they resulted in injury requiring medical attention and subsequent sickness absence.
• The work is mostly manual physical.
• The workers have a 45-minute main meal break and two 10-min breaks during the shift.
• The company has 1000 workers of which 50% are matured workers aged 40-65. 25% are obese (BMI > 30), 15% have high blood pressure and < 1% have diabetes. Most of them have not seen a doctor in years and are not under active follow up.
• Illustrate how the implementation of a fatigue risk management programme can help the workers in this company.

(40 marks)

Referencing

You are to provide proper references when you use other people’s ideas, words or pictures (including diagrams). All references should be provided in the American Psychological Association (APA) 7 format. Please refer to this website https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations for APA guidelines.

Referencing Examples

a. In text citation for one author

….. (Goldstein, 2019)

Goldstein (2019) …..

b. In text citation for three or more authors

(Wickens, et al., 2022)

Wickens, et al. (2022)