fatigue

using your fatigue monitoring data

Using your fatigue monitoring data

You’ve installed fatigue monitoring devices throughout your fleet, you’re getting a constant flow of data recording inattentions, microsleeps and more, how are you using your fatigue monitoring data?. 
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it’s a whole of life, whole of person problem

It’s a Whole of Life, Whole of Person Problem

Fatigue is more than just tiredness, it’s a severe problem, it’s a whole of life, whole of person problem. Fatigue is the leading cause of truck driver deaths in road crashes, with 35 per cent of truck driver deaths in 2019 resulting from fatigue crashes (NTARC 2020). Read More
how mature is your industry?

Taking Your Life In Your Hands

It is regarded as a traumatic event and not one you would do every day, but we all understand what the concept of taking your life in your hands means. However, a couple of stories in this week’s PowerTorque newsletter bring a simple fact to light, one which we sometimes lose sight of.
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looking at health issues in the trucking industry

Looking At Health Issues in the Trucking Industry

Two initiatives, one from the OzHelp Foundation (OzHelp) and another from Healthy Heads in Trucks & Sheds (HHTS) Foundation are increasing the emphasis on wellbeing in trucking by looking at health issues in the trucking industry.
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serious safety challenges

Serious Safety Challenges

According to the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator, fatigue and distraction are serious safety challenges for heavy vehicle drivers and operators.
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finally waking up to fatigue

Finally Waking Up To Fatigue

Something published this week by the Queensland Government, suggests that the people charged with actually building and designing our roads are finally waking up to fatigue. The other side of Transport and Main Roads in Queensland has been on the case for many years, helping develop the first Fatigue Management Program back in the nineties.
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how technology is fighting the battle against fatigue

How Technology is Fighting the Battle Against Fatigue

The cabin of a truck is one of the deadliest workplaces in Australia, with a report by the National Transport Insurance company finding that 53 truck drivers died in 2019, and truck driver deaths rose by 65 per cent from 2018, so it is important to look at how technology is fighting the battle against fatigue. A major contributor to these sobering numbers is fatigue.
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will this be a victory for common sense?

Fatigue Management is More Than Just Driver Hours

The topic of fatigue goes way beyond such things as an electronic work diary (EWD), and fatigue management is more than just driver hours. Since fatigue can manifest in ways that aren’t necessarily as cut and dried as hours of service or distance driven. For businesses the broader challenge is how to increase productivity while keeping both their drivers and other road users safe.
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Fatigue Choices campaign

Fatigue Choices Campaign

“Through our Fatigue Choices campaign we have asked operators to come in and have a chat with our safety team,” says Andreas Blahous, National Heavy Vehicle Regulator Senior Specialist (Fatigue Management). “They know their businesses and drivers. We ask them to tell us what they think is going on and if there is anything which they want to do which they can’t do under the current rules. Then we can have a conversation about those risks and how they can manage those risks.
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