To increase the likelihood that your 24/7 workforce will care more about getting appropriate sleep before work, and change their lives to do so, jump into their shoes and figure out how you would like to be treated in those shoes…and then, treat your workers that way.
Continue reading →If people are not that great at judging their own fatigue levels without a validated questionnaire, should we even consider getting them to judge how well they will perform at their current level of fatigue?
Continue reading →When organizations are setting up their fatigue risk management systems, they will always run into the challenge of assessing fitness to start or continue duty. You will often hear people saying “We cannot simply ask our shift-workers if they are … Continue reading →
Whether people openly and freely report fatigue levels, fatigue risks or other critical information depends highly on an organization’s reporting culture.
Continue reading →26% of all fatal and injury crashes are estimated to be related to fatigued driving and 167,000 Ontario drivers have been involved in at least one crash due to fatigued or drowsy driving.
Continue reading →There is a movement in fatigue research to use light in shorter bursts to temporarily relieve fatigue and improve performance without suppressing the melatonin. The strategy is called a fatigue countermeasure.
Continue reading →Article lists benefits of napping and 7 steps to a better nap.
Continue reading →The way you keep it together is with training. Providing your team with information about fatigue (the subject) and your FRMS (the system) links the people to the FRMS. It’s like welcoming a brand new aircraft to your fleet. If people don’t know how to fly (the subject) or they don’t understand the aircraft (the system), they are going to crash that asset.
Continue reading →1 AM and Mr. Winston decides it is time to interrupt my deep sleep! He’s only two years old and still finds himself full of energy at the wrong times and especially after a day of hiding out in our … Continue reading →
Get a blast of bright light! But, be careful, you don’t want to mess up your biology by tricking your brain into thinking it’s daytime.
Continue reading →There are now 5 million people in Canada working shifts and fighting fatigue every day!
Continue reading →I think we should treat our shift-workers like high performance athletes. Both are using their minds and bodies differently than the 9 to 5 worker and both need coaching on how to stay mentally and physically healthy and keep their performance levels high.
Continue reading →I recently talked about the counter-clockwise fast rotating shift schedule; I said it had to be the worst shift schedule possible. This schedule’s only rival is no schedule at all. But to really stink, these “no schedule” schedules have to … Continue reading →
Anyone who has worked shift-work for any period of time knows how hard it can be. But what’s the worst schedule of all? It has got to be the counter-clockwise fast rotating schedule.
Continue reading →The Ottawa Shift System improved officer morale, welfare and social life and decreased fatigue…
Continue reading →If your critical care intern has worked one or more extended work hour shifts in the past month, they are more likely than interns who have not worked an extended duration shift to make a significant medical error.
Continue reading →sleep inertia keeps you performing poorly after you wake up
Continue reading →The ability to fall asleep follows a fairly predictable daily pattern. It is easy, for most of us, to fall asleep at night and moderately easy to fall asleep in the middle of the afternoon.
Continue reading →An effective FRMS should be viewed as a partnership between organizations and employees. Organizations must be able to identify the fatigue risks unique to their operation and develop mitigation plans to deal proactively with these operational threats.
Continue reading →Some of the Issues The range of work hours is continuing to grow and an estimated 20% of workers world-wide work some form of shift-work (18). In contrast, only about 3% of the workforce were shift-workers in 1904 (20). Shift-work … Continue reading →
