Fatigue Management Online

This Fatigue Management Online course is designed to help you understand the health and safety impacts of fatigue as well as employer and worker responsibilities in terms of identifying and managing fatigue.

Course Overview

In any work environment, hazard awareness and control are key to keeping you and your coworkers safe. We often don't have difficulty identifying hazards like electrocution, getting struck by a piece of machinery, or slips, trips, and falls. But sometimes it is more difficult to identify the human factors, like fatigue, that contribute to hazards.

This Fatigue Management Online course is designed to help you understand the health and safety impacts of fatigue as well as employer and worker responsibilities in terms of identifying and managing fatigue. Throughout this course, you will learn about physiology in relation to fatigue, why we don't manage fatigue even when we are aware of the risks, and finally, strategies for proactively and re-actively managing fatigue in both the work environment and at home.

Course Topics

  • Sleep cycles and circadian rhythms
  • Health benefits of sleep
  • Causes of fatigue
  • Key physiological impacts of fatigue
  • Fatigue's impact on health and safety
  • Identifying and managing fatigue
  • Symptoms of fatigue
  • Strategies for assessing workplace fatigue
  • Fatigue-related legislation
  • Responsibilities for managing fatigue
  • Proactive and reactive strategies for fatigue management
  • Team-based fatigue management strategies
  • How to manage fatigue while driving
  • Strategies for shift workers (optional module)