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FATIGUE MANAGEMENT &
IMPAIRMENT DETECTION
Measuring Safety Culture
Broadly, culture refers to the ways in which people interact with each other. This includes things like the modes and methods of their communication, the expectations and the norms of their behavior, and their commonly held values, beliefs, and knowledge. Culture can be examined across entire demographics or geographical and political regions, like nerd culture or American culture, and it can also be seen at smaller and more specific levels, like within a workplace.
How Cognitive Impairment Testing Can Improve Your Employee's Drug Testing Program
Common Employee's Drug Testing Questions:
- Cannabis has been legalized in our state. How do we adjust our drug-testing program to avoid penalizing workers for legal consumption that does not impact their alertness and safety at work?
- Our random employees' drug tests are time-consuming and don't seem to be deterring enough workers from drug use. How do we strengthen the deterrent effect of random drug testing without increasing the time and money we spend on it?
- Our drug test positivity rates are high. How can we more effectively vet the workers we hire without aggravating the current labor shortages we are experiencing?
Why You Need a Fatigue Monitoring System
Fatigue monitoring is a big topic, and the causes of fatigue in the workplace are varied and numerous. Based on the ones that truly impact your environment, a fatigue monitoring system can be built with those in mind. For example, it’s fairly well-known that uneven or long hours, overtime, or rotating schedules that change from day to night and back again, pose a particular issue when it comes to monitoring and managing fatigue, and schedules can be assessed and modified. But what if you don’t have employees working difficult schedules? Are you exempt from having to worry about fatigue?
49 CFR Section 392.3
CAN FATIGUE RISK BE REGULATED?
The commercial transport industry is subject to regulation 49 CFR 392.3, which aims to prevent an ill or fatigued driver from getting behind the wheel. However, the regulation didn't prevent the highly publicized crash that injured comedian Tracy Morgan and killed comedian James "Jimmy Mack" McNair in June 2014, when a fatigued Walmart truck driver did not brake appropriately in response to traffic, including Morgan's limo van, that had slowed for a construction zone.(1)
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Empower a Safer Workforce
Discover how Predictive Safety can help you create a safer, more productive workforce, even during a historically tight labor market and high demand.
