Fatigue Management

By the end

What you'll build

• Explain how sleep loss, circadian timing and time on task combine to produce fatigue
• Recognise fatigue indicators in yourself and in a workmate before an error occurs
• Plan sleep, light exposure and caffeine use around a shift roster
• Sequence tasks and breaks so higher-risk work avoids the lowest-alertness window
• Raise a fitness-for-work concern through the site's process, including on behalf of a colleague

Curriculum

What's inside

5 modules · 29 lessons

1. 01

   How Fatigue Works

   6 lessons
   • Sleep Debt, Body Clock and Time on Task
   • Sleep Architecture in Plain Terms
   • The Circadian Low and Night Shift
   • Cumulative Debt Across a Swing
   • Recovery Sleep and What It Does Not Restore
   • + 1 more lesson
2. 02

   What Fatigue Does to Work

   6 lessons
   • The Errors Fatigue Produces Before You Feel Tired
   • Attention Lapses and Microsleeps
   • Shifting Risk Tolerance and Shortcut Thinking
   • Commute and Driving Risk After Shift
   • Fatigue in Decision-Heavy and Monitoring Roles
   • + 1 more lesson
3. 03

   Managing Your Own Fatigue

   6 lessons
   • Building a Sleep Plan Around Your Roster
   • Sleeping in Camp and Shared Accommodation
   • Light, Caffeine and Napping Strategy
   • Diet, Hydration and Working in Heat
   • Second Jobs, Study and Family Load
   • + 1 more lesson
4. 04

   Crew and System Controls

   6 lessons
   • Raising a Concern About a Workmate Without Making It Personal
   • Scheduling Tasks Around the Alertness Curve
   • Break Design and Job Rotation
   • Roster Design Trade-Offs
   • Reporting and the Fitness-for-Work Process
   • + 1 more lesson
5. 05

   Practice and check

   5 lessons
   • Symptom to Causematch pairs
   • When a Workmate Is Running on Emptysequence order
   • What Fatigue Actually Isfill blank
   • Fourth Night, Forty Minutes Leftscenario
   • Course quizquiz

The shape of it

How this course works