FIFO Fatigue, Isolation and Mental Health Awareness
A plain-English course for people who fly in and fly out, drive in and drive out, supervise them or build their rosters. Learn how roster length, night shift, travel days and camp life build fatigue and wear people down; how isolation from family and support networks does real harm; why psychosocial risk is a legal WHS duty and not a soft issue; how to notice when you or a mate is struggling; how to have a supportive conversation without pretending to be a counsellor; and exactly where to get real help. This is awareness only. It is not a mental health qualification and it does not make you anyone's clinician.
~50 minutes100% online, self-paced6 months access from the day of course start
What You Will Learn
Explain how roster length, compression, night shift, travel days and camp life build fatigue and psychosocial risk for FIFO and DIDO workers, and how that fatigue then impairs judgment, reaction time and behaviour and feeds back into other hazards on site
Recognise isolation, loneliness and reduced access to support networks as a named psychosocial hazard rather than a personal weakness
State that managing psychosocial risk is a legal duty on the PCBU under WHS or OHS law, and identify what your jurisdiction requires
Notice the changes that suggest you or a workmate is struggling, and start a supportive conversation within your limits
Signpost the right help, including the 24/7 national services, and use safe language when suicide is part of the conversation
Course Content
1. What FIFO does to people
2. Fatigue: rosters, night shift and travel days
3. Isolation, camp life and the people at home
4. This is a legal duty, not a soft issue
5. Noticing, asking, and where the real help is
6. Apply it: a swing on a remote site
Final Assessment - 10 questions, 80% pass mark, retakes available
Who This Course Is For
FIFO and DIDO workers in resources, energy and remote construction; supervisors, superintendents and crew leaders on site and in camp; rostering, planning and HR staff who decide how long people are away and when they sleep; and anyone who lives in a camp or works a swing away from home.
Accreditation: This is a non-accredited awareness course. It is not a nationally recognised qualification, not an RTO Statement of Attainment and not any form of clinical, counselling or mental health credential. In particular, it is not Mental Health First Aid, the Standard Mental Health First Aid course from Mental Health First Aid Australia is separate, licensed training delivered by accredited instructors and this course does not replace it. Nor does it replace MATES Connector or Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), or MATES general awareness training, your site's own inductions and fatigue procedures or the free resources published by Safe Work Australia and your WHS regulator. Treat this as supplementary awareness that sits alongside them. Completing it does not qualify you to diagnose, assess, treat or counsel anyone, to make a clinical judgement about a person's safety or to decide whether someone is fit for work. Its entire scope is: recognise, support and signpost to professional help. If someone's life is in danger, call 000.
Suggested next course
Construction Site Safety Awareness (Pre-Induction)
$49 per person
$49.00
Prices are in Australian dollars and include GST.
Duration
~50 minutes
Format
100% online, self-paced
Lessons
6
Assessment
10 questions (80% to pass)
Certificate
Instant, verifiable
Access period
6 months access from the day of course start
Who it’s for
FIFO and DIDO workers in resources, energy and remote construction; supervisors, superintendents and crew leaders on site and in camp; rostering, planning and HR staff who decide how long people are away and when they sleep; and anyone who lives in a camp or works a swing away from home.
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