SEAFARERS FATIGUE MANAGEMENT ? AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON INDIAN SEAFARERS

Human fatigue is a common phenomenon that exists in most of the industries an outcome of the influence exerted due to continuous and rigorous work executed without any break. However one could see that the fatigue factor is excessively prevalent only among the seafarers in the shipping industry, as the lifestyle of the seafarers is something different from other professions in as much as they have to spend most of their time in mid sea, by enduring their services for months together in the absence of all their due domestic pleasure to rejoice and to rejuvenate their mind. Researchers on this field have time and again established that it is a proven fact that fatigue is one of the reasons for lack of concentration while attending to their routine work and even led to occurrence of accidents of ships nowadays. Several factors could be attributed to fatigue of seafarers, which include psychological, physiological and environmental factors; are the main reasons for their intermittent distraction, resulting in their poor on board performance and ultimately lead to spoil the physical and mental aspects as well.