API TR 755-1-2010

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Technical Support Document for ANSI/API RP 755, Fatigue Risk Management Systems for Personnel in the Refining and Petrochemical Industries

Published By	Publication Date	Number of Pages
API	2010	60

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Description

Provides guidance to all stakeholders (e.g. employees, managers, supervisors, contractors)

The success of an FRMS depends on the willingness of diverse stakeholders to alter their behaviors and practices to help mitigate fatigue risk. It is important to bring employees, supervisors and managers early into the process of designing an FRMS. Doing so helps create a buy-in so that they will support and own the FRMS because of the benefits they see for themselves as well as for the overall safety of the workplace.

This recommended practice was developed for refineries, petrochemical and chemical operations, natural gas liquefaction plants, and other facilities such as those covered by the OSHA Process Safety Management Standard, 29 CFR 1910.119

RP 755 was specifically developed for US facilities operating under the OSHA Process Safety Management Standard. Companies voluntarily may also choose to take advantage of RP 755 to design and implement FRMS across their other operations, including upstream and international operations outside the US where fatigue risk can also significantly impact the operational safety. However, doing so is not required under RP 755.

Applies to a workforce that is commuting daily to a job location

RP 755 is specifically designed for employees who live and sleep at their homes during off-duty hours and have normal family-social interactions on a daily basis. These recommendations are not designed for employees who travel to remote locations (e.g. offshore platforms or onshore remote locations) where they live in company-provided accommodations and are isolated from their normal daily family and social interactions.

Research on sleep patterns in offshore platforms and other remote locations shows a greater capacity to adapt to longer sequences of consecutive workdays and maintain adequate sleep when the demands of family and social interactions are not competing with sleep and relaxation time.[2,3]

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