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 Zugman and Murphy Siding, You are missing the point by downplaying the sleep disorder issue as simply being tired on the job.  It is not about working while tired or fatigued.  It is about spontaneously falling asleep despite even vigorous levels of activity, without any warning, and sometimes with no pre-awareness of drowsiness or other signs that sleep is imminent.   It is not necessarily related to a lack of sleep, being tired, or feeling fatigue.  Instead, it is due to a medical condition developed over time by nightshift work.  And more explicitly, it is a medical condition that amounts to a natural predisposition to being susceptible to this influence of nightshift work.  That is the sleep disorder problem as it has evolved to exist today.  In last year’s locked thread, I predicted that the problem will be solved technologically rather than by experience diagnosis and treatment.  I said this: <div> <ul> <li>Bucyrus</li> </ul> </div> <div> The more I think about it, I see this problem being addressed with a technological solution. Re-structuring the work so that everybody works regular shifts is just way too much to bite off. And even if you did all that, you would still have people working nightshifts, so the problem will persist from that cause alone. You could spend a fortune trying to diagnose who is and is not subject to sleep disorders, and then medically treating those people affected. And even all that is not going to be a surefire remedy. No, what is needed is a personal monitoring system. The battle needs to be fought right where the employee falls asleep on the job. It would be like a personal dead man control. It won’t prevent people from falling asleep. But it will prevent them from getting killed if they do fall asleep. We are right at the doorstep of this technologically, so it should not be any big deal to perfect. End of problem. </div>   The baseball cap monitor is exactly what I was referring to in the second paragraph.  It will do two things: 1)      It will give a warning that will trigger an automatic or supervisor response to immediately take the employee out of danger. 2)      It will develop a profile to show which employees are susceptible to sleep disorders produced by nightshift work, so they can be successfully treated or taken out of services where sleep disorder could pose a safety risk.    Item #2 is very important because it will replace the current only available approach to diagnosis, which is complex and partly subjective testing and questioning of employees about their sleep habits, lifestyle, diet, work experience, etc.    The main point of this technological breakthrough is that it is carried on the person.  You could almost call it a Pocket Trainmaster.
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