Sleep Debt Is a Work Risk
Recognize sleep debt as an operational risk to attention, judgment, and error prevention.
Fatigue is not just how work feels. It changes what work is safe to do. Risk before resilience Resilience is useful, but it can become a cover story for bad operating conditions. NIOSH fatigue guidance treats long hours and sleep disruption as conditions that increase errors and reduce recovery. That gives you permission to change the work design. Consequence sorting Ask what happens if this task is done poorly. High-consequence tasks need alertness, review, or delay. Low-consequence tasks can be batched into lower-energy windows. Controls beat heroics A second reviewer, a morning approval window, or a no-send draft rule is…
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