NTSB Most Wanted List: Reduce Fatigue-Related Accidents

The US National Transportation Safety Board put fatigue at the top of its Most Wanted List of safety changes in 2016 and kept it on the list through 2020, calling for hours-of-service limits, fatigue education, treatment of sleep disorders such as sleep apnea, and better scheduling across aviation, rail, marine, pipeline and road transport. The list is the board's main advocacy tool for recommendations it cannot enforce itself.

Years: 2016–2020
Country: United States
Topic: Injury prevention Sleep Traffic safety
Asks people to: Support a policy
Strategy: Policy paired
Channel: Events Social (organic)Website
Audience: General public
Transport regulators (FAA, FRA, FMCSA, USCG), operators, unions, legislators

Evidence

NoneUnknown

Sponsor (who paid)

National Transportation Safety Board Federal government

Credits (who made it)

Not recorded yet.

Related campaigns

Families of Continental Flight 3407: pilot fatigue and training rules 2009–now
North American Fatigue Management Program 2013–now

Sources

NTSB 2016 Most Wanted List: reducing fatigue-related accidents is a top priority (AASM) reference · 2016
NTSB Most Wanted List archive sponsor
2016 DOT response to NTSB Most Wanted List reference · 2016

Research notes

Created 2026-10-24 by an AI research pass for #103 (G2); not reviewed by a person. Only the AASM summary was opened; list editions come from search results. Fatigue and hours of service also appeared on earlier lists from the 1990s, not checked. To verify: top item in 2016; kept in 2017-2018 and 2019-2020; absent from 2021-2023; over 200 fatigue recommendations; the list began 1990.

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