It’s 4 a.m.; do you know where your circadian rhythms are?
We often misunderstand our quest to manage fatigue. We attempt to eliminate it or expect that through our efforts it will go away. Whether it is through caffeine, changes in behavior, or fatigue detecting technology, we do our best to improve our alertness. But believing that fatigue will ever be eliminated is just not feasible. However, understanding that we will ALL experience fatigue is crucial to implementing programs, policies and solutions to MANAGE and MITIGATE fatigue.
Once we understand that we will all experience fatigue, and some of us in drastically different ways than others, we can then begin the journey to create multiple layers of protection against the potentially devastating effects of fatigue in the workplace.