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How Glucose Impacts Safety on the Job

Numerous factors affect the severity and length of worker fatigue. These can include anything from shift work and lack of exercise to light, temperature and sleep debt. An often overlooked factor in fatigue is the potentially significant impact that metabolism and glucose levels can have on how tired people are.  Metabolism Metabolism provides energy to…

Save Time with These Tips for Daylight Saving Time

Safety professionals know well that daylight saving time makes workplaces and roads more hazardous, contributing to a number of serious and fatal incidents each year, including: a significant increase in heart attacks on Mondays following daylight saving time, and an increase in fatal car crashes. Due to fatigue caused by an hour of lost sleep,…

How to Avoid Being Exhausted After Daylight Saving

It’s almost daylight saving time again and although the clocks are adjusted by only one hour, its impact on everyone’s circadian rhythms and fatigue levels is undeniable. This is especially true in the spring when losing an hour of sleep can negatively affect many people and the safety of their commute and their work. Of…

Circadian Rhythm and the Importance of Sleep in Workplace Safety

Fatigue is a dangerous problem in every industry—and it’s an increasingly common condition. When fatigued, people make more mistakes, they become distracted and unmotivated. Tired workers are also more likely to become ill. And when it comes to productivity, employees can cost their company almost $2,000 per worker each year in fatigue-related productivity losses. But, most…

Wake Up and See the Danger of Fatigue

If you’ve noticed the headlines recently you’ll note one key word in front-page features about incidents: fatigue. Fatigue, excess speed caused NJ truck-limo accident that injured Tracy Morgan One industry that has forever had an issue with fatigue is the transportation industry. Commercial vehicle hours of service laws prevent truck drivers from driving more than…