Listen to signs of fatigue

Fatigue deserves attention before it affects work. Pace, task duration, environmental conditions and recovery should be considered together.

Encourage people to report difficulties and check whether breaks, different work arrangements or input from the relevant professionals are needed. Avoid treating fatigue solely as a matter of individual endurance.

Is it easy for people in your team to say they are fatigued?

Fatigue and attention difficulties deserve to be heard without immediately assigning individual blame. Shift organisation, workload and recovery opportunities need competent assessment in context. A workable reporting route can expose organisational issues that aggregated statistics may fail to show.

During field discussion, ask how a foreseeable difficulty is handled: who can be involved and which information supports a decision? Connecting observations, ownership and feedback helps establish whether a control is workable as well as documented. The review should consider actual conditions rather than assume that the same arrangement fits every task.