Alertness Testing to reduce human errors in the workplace.

RESOURCES - Alertness Testing

We maintain a source library of documents and links regarding human factors and impairment related risk. Please contact BLT for specific requests or areas of interest.

BLT Publications
Instructions for Alertness Central Complete instructions for administering the Alertness Central system.	1.6 M
Alertness Central Shapes This is the library of shapes used in the BLT Alertness test.	549 KB (pdf)
Testing for Human Fatigue Summary of the 2004 sleep deprivation trial conducted by BLT and Circadian Technologies, Inc.	739 KB (pdf)
Demonstration Try a sample test.	LINK
BLT White Paper: Fatigue and Accidents Summary of evidence connecting fatigue and accidents.	70 KB (pdf)

BLT Press Release Information
Press Release-24 Jan 06 Drug testing vs alertness testing.	37 KB (pdf)
Press Release-16 Jan 06 Announces availability of Alertness Central on Internet	32 KB (pdf)
Press Release-2 Feb 06 Covers three accidents that might not have happened.	43 KB (pdf)

Related Publications
Monitoring the Status of the Human Brain Circadian Technologies, Inc. from 24x7 Operations: Optimizing Human Performance, Chapter 12.	24 KB (pdf)
NTSB Impaired Driving Report A good summary of the impaired driving problem, 2003.	503 KB (pdf)
Fatigue in Truck Accidents A fascinating and well researched study on fatigue and truck accidents. A good basis for cost analysis. (Canada, 1989).	702 KB (pdf)
Effect of Reducing Interns' Work Hours on Serious Medical Errors in Intensive Care Units Important study showing the effects of long work hours on error rate.	112 KB (pdf)
Effect of Reducing Interns' Weekly Work Hours on Sleep and Attentional Failures Further study with interns. This article and the one above relate to BLT study scheduled for summer '08 with subject interns.	109 KB (pdf)