Safety group offers strategy for managing worker fatigue

The Infrastructure Health and Safety Association has released a hazard alert warning that worker fatigue significantly impairs mental focus and creates serious safety risks on job sites. ISHA defines fatigue as exhaustion affecting the body, mind, or both, and offers strategies for managing this hazard.

Toronto — Fatigue reduces a worker’s mental focus and “creates serious safety risks,” the Infrastructure Health and Safety Association says in a recently released hazard alert. ISHA defines fatigue as “a state of feeling exhausted or worn out, either in your body, your mind or both.” It adds that…

This story was originally published by Safety+Health Magazine.