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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">The more I think about it, I see this problem being addressed with a technological solution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Re-structuring the work so that everybody works regular shifts is just way too much to bite off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And even if you did all that, you would still have people working nightshifts, so the problem will persist from that cause alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could spend a fortune trying to diagnose who is and is not subject to sleep disorders, and then medically treating those people affected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And even all that is not going to be a surefire remedy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">No, what is needed is a personal monitoring system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The battle needs to be fought right where the employee falls asleep on the job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be like a personal dead man control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It won’t prevent people from falling asleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it will prevent them from getting killed if they do fall asleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are right at the doorstep of this technologically, so it should not be any big deal to perfect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>End of problem.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span> </span></span></p>
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