It can be hard to know when it’s time to stop and rest. Workers are often pushing to get the job done faster, and sacrificing health and safety in the process.“It’s well known that we are bad at judging our own fatigue levels,” says Silvano Angelone, a fatigue solutions consultant with Caterpillar Inc. “Often we think we are much more alert than we are.”Caterpillar’s Cat Smartband, released in 2015, helps employers track employees’ fatigue level. The wrist-worn device detects an employee’s sleep and wake periods, and converts the data into an effectiveness score. If an employee is too tired, the
