Keywords: fatigue, human factor, sleep patterns, shiftwork routines, workloads, hours,

Fatigue at work

Lucie Ponting | Feature | HSW
01.08.2006

If fatigue sounds like a wearisome subject, just consider how much it might cost you to ignore it in your workforce. The £30,000 penalty and £24,000 costs handed down to a Cambridgeshire company in June after one of its employees was killed after he fell asleep at the wheel of his car ...

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