Global Seminar Series: March 13, 2024              

The 6th Working Time Society Global Seminar – “Fatigue Management in Transportation – Translating Sleep Science into Practice” – was held on March 13th, 2024 3:00pm CET.

This seminar was organized by Ashleigh Filtness and hosted by the WTS in collaboration with Loughborough University.

Speakers were:

Jackie Townsend: Insights from Tram Operations Ltd’s journey to improve fatigue and wellness management

Fran Pilkington-Cheney: Individual countermeasures to fatigue

Fred Diederichs: Road vehicle automation and its effects on fatigue, sleep, rest and recuperation

Muataz Jaber: Lessons learned in implementing a sleep apnoea assessment program in the transportation industry

Jaime Devine: Work scheduling – Biomathematical modelling for fatigue risk, and its role in fatigue risk management processes

Kimberly Honn: Fatigue risk thresholds

Cassie Hilditch and Dorothee Fischer: Jet lag, sleep timing and sleep inertia

Nita Shattuck: Awakening to the challenge of fatigue management in maritime transportation

Kat Wilson: Fatigue-related consequences in aviation

Crystal Kirkley: Space transport and fatigue

The seminar was held in an online meeting. The Working Time Society was pleased to announce that registration was FREE and open to everyone! If you are not a WTS member, please consider a donation to support Early Career Researchers in our WTS network, if you can. See Donations to the WTS.