S Y S T E M
MANAGEMENT
COMBAT
WORKER
FATIGUE
WITH A
WAREHOUSE
I recently read an alarming statistic. According to the National Safety
Council (NSC), worker fatigue costs employers an estimated $136 billion in
health-related lost productivity each year in the U.S. alone. What's more,
the NSC finds that fatigued worker productivity losses cost employers
between $1,200 to $3,100 per employee each year. I've had similar
conversations with warehouse operators, and employee fatigue is
increasingly becoming a serious workplace issue. While not easily
discernible in the accounting books, fatigue is impacting the bottom line
for many distributors.
While co-workers might
make light of finding an
employee asleep at their
workstation or in a seldom
picked zone of the
warehouse, this could be a
sign of worker fatigue.