Open AccessFatigue management in the workplace
Author(s) -
Khosro Sadeghniiat-Haghighi,
Zohreh Yazdi
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/0972-6748.160915
Subject(s) - workload , shift work , productivity , work (physics) , sleep debt , sleep deprivation , sleep (system call) , occupational medicine , occupational safety and health , risk analysis (engineering) , medicine , circadian rhythm , operations management , business , computer science , engineering , psychiatry , mechanical engineering , pathology , endocrinology , economics , macroeconomics , operating system
Workers' fatigue is a significant problem in modern industry, largely because of high demand jobs, long duty periods, disruption of circadian rhythms, and accumulative sleep debt that are common in many industries. Fatigue is the end result of integration of multiple factors such as time awake, time of day, and workload. Then, the full understanding of circadian biologic clock, dynamics of transient and cumulative sleep loss, and recovery is required for effective management of workplace fatigue. It can be more investigated in a new field of sleep medicine called occupational sleep medicine. Occupational sleep medicine is concerned with maintaining best productivity and safety in the industrial settings. The fatigue risk management system (FRMS) is a comprehensive approach that is based on applying scientific evidence of sleep knowledge to manage workers fatigue. It is developing rapidly in the highly safety demand jobs; especially truck drivers, pilots, and power plant workers. The objective of this review is to explain about fatigue in the workplace with emphasis on its association work performance and errors/accidents. Also, we discussed about different methods of fatigue measurement and management.