Safety

10 04, 2012

Study shows high rate of truckers with undiagnosed sleep apnea

2022-09-22T16:54:48+00:00April 10, 2012|Safety, Shift Work, Sleep Apnea|

Truck drivers are not the best judges at diagnosing their own sleep apnea, a new study reports. Research showed that self-diagnosis and symptom reports fell far short of determining sleep apnea when compared to home testing. Only 4 percent of 517 commercial vehicle drivers [...]

15 12, 2011

Calling dream enactment behavior back to bed

2022-09-23T19:16:57+00:00December 15, 2011|Safety, Sleep Disorders|

REM Sleep Behavior Disorder is characterized by abnormal behaviors that cause injury or disrupt sleep. The most notorious is Dream Enactment Behavior. As the name suggests, Dream Enacted Behavior causes the sleeper to act out his or her dreams. Flailing arms, leaping from bed, [...]

15 03, 2011

Why accidents increase after daylight saving time

2022-09-28T18:44:54+00:00March 15, 2011|Daylight Saving Time, Safety|

Was traffic noticeably slower on your morning commute these past couple of days? If so, blame daylight saving time. The “spring forward” is believed to cause a temporary spike in traffic incidents. A 1998 Canadian study found that auto accidents may increase as much [...]

20 01, 2011

Fatigue formula may prevent future air traffic tragedy

2022-09-28T18:38:34+00:00January 20, 2011|Safety, Shift Work, Sleep Deprivation|

Shortly after 6 a.m. on August 27, 2006, 49 people were killed when a Delta Connection flight skidded off the end of a Fayette County, Kentucky runway on takeoff. The commuter plane was on the wrong runway – one too short for the plane. [...]

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