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Often, efforts toward continuous workplace safety improvement get discarded because of what we prefer to believe about our workforce's fitness for duty, rather than what we actually know about it. The truth is that without an objective way to measure the factors that contribute to improving workplace safety, we can’t determine trend directions and take corrective actions that prevent the factors that reduce productivity and create workplace hazards. We know that fatigue is a leading cause of workplace accidents, yet most companies don’t have active fatigue monitoring and management systems.

Fatigue at work is one of the most common contributing factors to workplace accidents and near-misses. Worker fatigue can manifest from a number of reasons, both work-related and not. Most fatigue at work and its symptoms accompany sleep debt, an accumulation of insufficient restorative sleep, but it can also arise from mental or physical exertion, personal health factors, and psychosocial factors. Regardless of its cause, fatigue at work is more than just being tired and it can impair one mentally as well as physically.