An announcement from
CIRCADIAN Technologies

EXPERT SYSTEM TO ASSESS FATIGUE IN ACCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS

WEDNESDAY 28 JULY 2010

TRY FACTS FOR FREE

Have an accident you want to investigate? Try FACTS

WHAT IS FACTS?

FACTS is an online diagnostic expert system to help investigators and companies readily determine if human fatigue may have been a causal factor in an accident/incident.

ABOUT CIRCADIAN®

CIRCADIAN® provides Fatigue Risk Management Systems, Shift Schedules, Software, and Training & Publications to solve the challenges of the 24/7 workforce.

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FACTS is a web-based investigatory tool that helps users determine if human fatigue may have been a causal factor in an accident/incident. Developed by the world’s leading experts in sleep, fatigue, and circadian rhythms, FACTS generates results that correlate well (r = .91) with conclusions reached by experts who investigated NTSB and other industrial accidents.

FACTS helps you do the following:

- Determine whether or not fatigue affected the individual involved in an accident/incident.

- Calculate what percentage of your operations incidents/accidents/deviations are due to fatigue.

- Estimate the cost of employee fatigue impairment at your operation.

Have an accident you want to investigate?

FATIGUE ACCIDENT/INCIDENT CAUSATION TESTING SYSTEM (FACTS)

Fatigue is one of the most pervasive yet under-reported causes of human error-related accidents, incidents, and injuries in both the industrial and transportation sectors.

Because fatigue is difficult to detect (i.e., no blood, urine or breathalyzer test exists to identify it) companies have a difficult time quantifying the true impact and cost of fatigue in their operations.

To bridge this gap, CIRCADIAN® created an online diagnostic expert system to help investigators and companies readily determine (by standardizing criteria and with high probability) if human fatigue may have been a causal factor in an accident/incident.

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One additional note …

One of the developers of FACT will be at the TapRooT® Summit to share information about the technique and how to use it.

This presentation is in the Changing Behavior and Stopping Human Error track from 10:40-12 on Thursday, October 28.

For more information on the TapRooT® Summit, see:

http://www.taproot.com/summit.php