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06-13-2014, 09:10 PM
Your Safety Still Depends on Air Traffic Controllers Working Crazy Shifts
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WASHINGTON — Air traffic controllers are still working schedules k**wn as "rattlers" that make it likely for them to get little or ** sleep before overnight shifts, more than three years after a ****** of incidents involving controllers sleeping on the job, according to a government report released Friday.
A report by the National Research Council (http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18824) expressed concern about the effectiveness of the Federal Aviation Administration's program to prevent its 15,000 controllers from suffering fatigue on the job, a program that has been hit with budget cuts. The 12-member committee of academic and industry experts who wrote the report at the behest of Congress said FAA (http://mashable.com/category/faa?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) officials refused to allow them to review results of prior research the agency conducted with NASA examining how work schedules affect controller performance. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/13/air-traffic-controllers-faa-schedules/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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WASHINGTON — Air traffic controllers are still working schedules k**wn as "rattlers" that make it likely for them to get little or ** sleep before overnight shifts, more than three years after a ****** of incidents involving controllers sleeping on the job, according to a government report released Friday.
A report by the National Research Council (http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18824) expressed concern about the effectiveness of the Federal Aviation Administration's program to prevent its 15,000 controllers from suffering fatigue on the job, a program that has been hit with budget cuts. The 12-member committee of academic and industry experts who wrote the report at the behest of Congress said FAA (http://mashable.com/category/faa?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) officials refused to allow them to review results of prior research the agency conducted with NASA examining how work schedules affect controller performance. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/13/air-traffic-controllers-faa-schedules/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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