Safety And Risk Success21 Nov 2025

Tired Minds, Higher Risks: Mastering Fatigue Management, With Dan Wakerley

Fatigue hides in plain sight. It silently chips away at judgement, coordination, reaction time and even emotional stability, long before someone reaches the point of nodding off. Yet many workplaces still treat tiredness as nothing more than part of the job. In this conversation with Dan Wakerley, founder of Pillar, we lift the lid on the true impact of fatigue, why it's entirely predictable, and how using real-time readiness data can transform safety, performance and well-being. If you want to prevent incidents rather than explain them, this is a must-listen.

Highlights

Fatigue as impairment: how being awake 18 hours can mirror alcohol-level degradation: real risk
Cultural barriers: the "hard man" mindset and why it holds organisations back: perspective shift
Predictability of fatigue: roster design, circadian insights and readiness checks: practical tools
Daily risk control: adjusting tasks, not just stopping work, based on real-time data: smarter decisions
Tech that helps: what readiness actually measures and why sleep hours alone mislead: clearer insights
Cross-functional ownership: why CEOs, safety, HR and operations must align: integrated approach
Economic upside: error reduction, productivity gains and safer outcomes: business case
Immediate actions: start measuring fatigue in a small pilot and build from there: first steps

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