Fatigue

Fatigued Pilot Shows Sleep Dangers

Tuesday 17th April 2012

A dramatic incident onboard an Air Canada flight in which a passenger plane was plunged into a nosedive, detailed in a report released this week, has underlined the potentially dangerous effects of ‘sleep inertia’ and fatigue. The Transportation...

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Combat the Effects of Fatigue with a Memory Foam Mattress

Wednesday 4th May 2011

Fatigue can have more of an impact on our daily lives than we realise. As an ongoing occurrence, it can blight the course of a normal day as something we may just accept without further consideration for our health or wellbeing. Poor sleep, night after...

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Signs of Sleep Deprivation

Monday 21st March 2011

When hectic work schedules run into busy social calendars, it is sometimes difficult to pause and recognise that we are missing out on vital sleep. It is all too easy to slip into a culture that doesn't seem to want or need rest and then wonder why we...

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Measuring fatigue through speech – study

Wednesday 12th January 2011

A recent study held by the University of Melbourne found a lack of sleep affects our ability to speak coherently and how we function in the work environment, medicalnewstoday.com reports. Through experiments carried out on 18 people, researchers tested...

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Device combats driver fatigue

Friday 7th January 2011

A Danish designed system has been launched to help drivers stay alert and avoid the dangers of fatigue. The 'Anti-Sleep Pilot' uses a complex system of twenty-six parameters to determine a driver's level of alertness and the likelihood of them falling...

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Work fatigue impacting sleep ability

Tuesday 2nd November 2010

Fatigue caused by work commitments is causing a vicious circle of poor quality sleep that only serves to exacerbate the problem, according to a recently released Australian study. Furthermore, the worst effects of the fatigue are generally experienced...

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US pilots to get new anti-fatigue measures

Tuesday 14th September 2010

The US FAA has proposed a new raft of measures aimed at reducing the level of fatigue suffered by commercial pilots. The 'duty time' guidelines cover issues such as work schedules, start and end times, time-zones and flight types, as well as taking into...

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