Caterpillar Takes a Closer Look at Operator Fatigue
Date Posted: September 21, 2015
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From Construction Equipment.com: Caterpillar Safety Services completed a trial of Vigo Coal Company’s Driver Safety System (DSS), to examine the pervasiveness of operator fatigue in daily heavy equipment operations.
DSS is a technology-enabled monitoring service that helps mining and construction clients understand the extent of this particular safety issue. The technology quantify merges operator data compiled by wearable and in-cab anti-fatigue technologies with machine data.
Trial results using in-cab anti-fatigue technology recorded 42 fatigue events and some instances where operators fell asleep for five to six seconds at one time