This article will provide an overview of the state of impairment testing today and will answer the following questions: 1. What is impairment testing? 2. What’s the history of impairment testing? a. Increasing Awareness of Workplace Fatigue b. Early...
Plane crashes, especially when a commercial airline is involved, attract more attention than many other types of industrial accidents. Fortunately, aviation accidents are relatively rare, but when they do occur, 80% are a result of human error, and of those, an...
Drug testing’s limitations as a safety measure have been firmly established. Yet despite experiencing these limitations, companies have continued relying on drug testing, considering it to be the only tool that can have any affect in combating impairment in their...
Even though there is plenty of information showing the serious risk that fatigue presents, it is not commonly recognized as the significant risk to safety and productivity that it really is–at least not until a fatigue-related safety incident occurs in our...
A Supervisor’s Plight Mitchell, a foreman for a large construction and engineering company, supervises a crew of about fifty workers. He remembers the names of only a few of his crew, not because he doesn’t care, but because most come and go so quickly that he...
There are numerous reasons why managing fatigue and impairment in your workplace is key to enhancing safety, performance, and employee morale.Below is are the six most crucial as well as universally applicable across a broad spectrum of industies. 1. workplace safety...