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This course takes about 40 minutes. You can stop at any point and pick up where you left off.
It is for anyone who works shifts, and anyone who designs them: operators, drivers, maintainers, emergency services, health workers, supervisors, superintendents and the people who approve rosters.
The argument this course makes
Fatigue is a roster and workload design problem before it is a personal discipline problem. Most fatigue training is a sleep hygiene lecture delivered to people whose roster makes sleep hygiene largely irrelevant.
Sleep habits matter, and they are covered. They sit near the bottom of the hierarchy of control, and this course is ordered accordingly rather than starting there.
What it covers
- What actually causes fatigue, which is more than not enough sleep
- Why you cannot reliably judge your own impairment
- What it does to performance, and what it does to health over years
- Roster and workload controls, which is the longest unit
- The drive home, which is where a great deal of the harm actually happens
- Fitness for work, and what to do when you are not fit
- Who is responsible for what
What it is not
General information for Australia, not medical advice and not a substitute for your site’s fatigue management plan, your roster or the heavy vehicle fatigue rules if you drive for a living. If you have persistent trouble sleeping even with adequate opportunity, that is worth seeing a doctor about rather than managing alone.