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Australian air traffic controller found asleep under a blanket was working their 7th night shift in 9 days — “likely due to an underlying lack of resources within Airservices Australia”: investigators
A safety report said the employee, who was working from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., was found by a colleague who arrived at work at 5:15 a.m.
The incident occurred on December 9, 2022, when a morning-shift controller arrived at work at 5:15 a.m. to find their night-shift counterpart asleep at the console. The ATSB's report blamed multiple night shifts in a short space of time, the worker's low workload, and an ineffective risk-management system for the incident. There had been no traffic or scheduled flights in the airspace the controller was responsible for, and a system supervisor had been on duty at the front desk of the center.
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