The work between policy and practice
Road safety progress depends on more than commitments. It requires sustained action, strong partnerships, and accountability to ensure that policies…
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In the world of transportation, sleepiness poses a major safety risk and is a leading contributor to accidents.
Understanding sleepiness – including how to manage it to minimise safety risk – is vitally important. However, it is one thing to recognise that sleepiness is a critical safety issue; it is quite another to set up a successful, scientifically informed fatigue risk management programme. Sleepiness management is a complex issue within the Transport Human Factors domain.
Professor Filtness’ lecture – How can we manage driver sleepiness? – will draw on 16 years of research work in this area, undertaken with a range of amazing collaborators, to journey through what we do and don’t know about driver sleepiness.
