A focus on fatigue

BETTER MANAGING and mitigating heavy vehicle driver fatigue and distraction needs to be a key safety priority for government and industry. Safety is number one, no matter the role but particularly for drivers, and we all have a responsibility to ensure our industry goes to work safely and arrives home safely.

For many years, we have been faced with the challenge of how to address fatigue safety risks – which has traditionally been focused almost exclusively on managing or counting hours of work.

We now know that this is not an