Manual of Standards Part 65 - Standards Applicable to Air Traffic Services Licensing and Training Requirements
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Chapter 14: Conditions on licences for fatigue management
14.01 Definitions for Chapter 14
In this Manual of Standards:
fatigue, for the holder of an ATC licence or a flight service licence, means a physiological state of reduced alertness or capability to perform mental or physical tasks, which:
(a) may impair the ability of the person to perform the person’s safety-related duties; and
(b) is caused by one or more of the following:
(i) the person’s lack of sleep;
(ii) the person’s extended wakefulness;
(iii) the person’s circadian phase at any time;
(iv) the person’s workload of mental activities, or physical activities, or mental and physical activities at any relevant time.
Note Chapter 4 of the Manual of Standards issued for Part 172 of CASR (the Part 172 MOS) provides for ATS providers to have and implement a fatigue risk management system (FRMS), approved by CASA, for the management of fatigue in its provision of air traffic services. See the definition of fatigue risk management system in section 4.02 of the Part 172 MOS.
flight service licence: see the CASR Dictionary.
14.02 Obligation on ATC licence holder not to be fatigued
For the purposes of regulation 11.068 of CASR, it is a condition on an ATC licence that its holder must not begin to perform an air traffic control function if, due to fatigue, the holder is, or is likely to be, unfit to perform a task that the holder must perform for that function.
14.03 Obligation on flight service licence holder not to be fatigued
For the purposes of regulation 11.068 of CASR, it is a condition on a flight service licence that its holder must not begin to perform a flight service function if, due to fatigue, the holder is, or is likely to be, unfit to perform a task that the holder must perform for that function.
Note Under paragraph 4.03(c) of the Part 172 MOS, an ATS provider has an obligation to ensure that an ATC licence holder or a flight service licence holder, that is a member of the provider’s personnel, complies with a requirement imposed on the person by section 14.02 or 14.03 of this Manual of Standards.