Fatigue Calculator
The fatigue calculator provides a measurable means of identifying fatigue in your organisation's personnel. Similar to a BAC reading, it provides a bench mark by which you can now assess your entire workforce, all of the time. By conducting a risk assessment of your specific organisational tasks, you can then establish an internally acceptable measure of fatigue. Based entirely on the licensed Prior Sleep/Wake Algorithm of the Centre for Sleep Research, the Fatigue Calculator is a scientifically verified, cost effective, and portable tool.
Regardless of the complexity of your current fatigue policies, due to mechanisms over which you have no direct control, your organisation may remain vulnerable to liability due to non-work fatigue.
When a person is fatigued at work, on approximately 50% of occasions it is due to "non-work" fatigue. Yet findings of court cases show that the courts generally assume the company is at fault. The Fatigue Calculator is a simple tool that assists in identifying both work and non-work fatigue and ultimately reducing your organisation's liability.
The Fatigue Calculator takes three factors into account when determining individual fatigue levels: How long a person is going to be awake; How much sleep they have had in prior two days; and what time of day it is. This allows for determination of whether a person is reporting fit for work and suitably rested to commence work, and how long they are able to work before fatigue creates an unacceptable level of risk.
Information above is supplied by MB Solutions (Aust) Pty Ltd.
View more information about the Fatigue Calculator
View the Fatigue Calculator PowerPoint presentation
View the Fatigue Calculator Update (April 2010)
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