Since this year, there have almost been a number of flight accidents at Sydney Airport in Australia, including an accident where the two planes almost collided. Investigations suggest that this may be related to the excessive fatigue of air traffic controllers. According to a Reuters report on the 4th, on July 27 of this year, a Qantas turboprop that was landing almost collided with a Qantas Boeing 737 that had been allowed to cross the runway. In the following month, there were 5 similar incidents at Sydney Airport. After reading an internal report, Reuters found that of the 10 air traffic controllers on duty on July 27, 5 were assessed as high risk by the Australian fatigue management system. 1 was medium risk, 1 was low risk, and 3 were risk-free. Reuters said that Australia's fatigue management system does not directly measure whether air traffic controllers are actually fatigued, but rather estimates the risk of fatigue by automatically evaluating factors such as workload and scheduling.

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