A 2009 study showed there are 5.7% more workplace injuries on the Monday after the change to Daylight Saving Time. What if a tweak to DST would help reduce that effect?
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Tags: Daylight Saving Time, sleep, Sleepys, work injuries
Know nighttime workers who are frustrated trying to sleep for eight hours during the day? A new study provides them with an option.
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Tags: circadian rhythm, FMCSA, hours of service, sleep
Imagine this: “Joe” works for your company full-time and has another job where he works 25 hours a week. He consumes energy drinks because of his busy schedule. Is that a potential problem?
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Tags: caffeine, emergency room visits, energy drinks, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Some employees adapt well to shift work. For others, it can create serious health and safety problems. How can you find those who will adapt better?
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Tags: insomnia, shift work, sleep, sleepiness
A sleep quiz to learn more about the strange world of sleep; a peek behind the curtain of OSHA’s Consultation programs; NHTSA’s “non-news;” and an industry coming together to reduce fatalities. All that, this week in the Safety News Summary.
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Tags: fatalities, NHTSA, OSHA Consultation program, sleep
How does a lack of sleep affect pain, and how does that pain, in turn, affect the ability to perform work tasks? New research has an answer to that question.
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Tags: Harvard study, healthcare workers, lack of sleep, pain
Pick any three employees at your company. Chances are, one of them is sleep deprived. And the chances increase for certain industries and among employees who work night and irregular schedules. And most people would not want to take the chance that these sleepy workers will injure themselves or others.
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Tags: Centers for Disease Control, manufacturing, National Sleep Foundation, sleep deprived
Once again, worker fatigue has proved deadly in a transportation incident.
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Tags: BNSF Railway, fatal train crash, NTSB
A new poll reveals that significant percentages of American workers are reporting to work fatigued.
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Tags: National Sleep Foundation, Sleep in America poll, transportation workers
Following closely on the heals of new rest rules for commercial pilots, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) set new hours-of-service (HOS) requirements for commercial truck drivers. Some groups aren’t happy about the new rules.
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Tags: FMCSA, hours of service, OOIDA, truck drivers, Truck Safety Coalition
