A human being needs enough hours to rest so as to give the body physical strength and to enable the brain to process information. Different studies show that the human body needs at least eight hours of good sleep. This enables body cells to function in a normal way without strain. Some people fail to sleep due to their work commitments and the engagement in daily chores. The health of an individual is more important than any other aspect of life (Scott, 1994). Considering all factors, sleep should be given the first priority when it comes to issues of work and rest.
The human brain is the engine of the body and it is the organ that coordinates the functions of other parts of human body. Therefore, it needs a lot of rest so as to enable the smooth flow of blood to every organ. Certain tasks, like air traffic control, consume a considerable amount of time leaving the controllers very little time to rest. This leads to health problems, such as eye infections, fatigue, headache, muscle cramps, and injuries resulting from the impact of the objects around the airport. Sleep deprivation, therefore, has negative effects on information processing. Failing to have enough sleep results in a more automatic information integration process that makes an individual shift information processing from the implicit to explicit method. However, the use of explicit processes or rule based strategies to implement tasks leads to errors when an individual is carrying out some tasks.
The information integration is the basic element when it comes to the execution of certain tasks including the air traffic control. Many tasks that are performed by individuals on the daily basis require the information integration rather than the rule based (explicit) process. For instance, driving, medical diagnosis and air traffic control are some tasks that require the information integration process. The front part of the brain is responsible for information processing in the body system and it requires that a person receives adequate rest (Didier, 1995). When an individual fails to sleep it becomes very difficult for him or her to carry put their professional duties as is expected.
Some tasks, such as air traffic control, are very technical and require the controller to be very attentive and concentrate on his or her work. Individuals who have good rest always apply the information integration process better than those workers who are sleep deprived. All organizations should provide their employees with a well balanced work-rest schedule so that they can have enough rest. The air traffic control sector is not an exception, because this is an area that requires controllers to work in shifts and thus they have inconsiderable time for sleep.
The National Transportation Safety Board provides information that shows how sleep deprivation has effects on the performance of air traffic controllers and other workers employed on shift basis. The effect of sleep deprivation on the air traffic controllers causes serious errors and the poor performance. Errors that occur due to tiredness include the failure to be attentive on runways and forgetting crucial information about air traffic rules. The errors occur due to the lack of good rest thus leading to the body tiredness (Tsang, Michael, 2007). Air traffic controllers fail to get enough sleep because they are at work at night when they are supposed to be asleep. The study shows that air traffic controllers have an average of two to three hours of sleep before they go for their night shifts.
The shifts are arranged in such a way that controllers work for long night hours than day hours. This leads to sleep deprivation that results from the poor scheduling of shifts, short periods of rest and bad habits. Poor scheduling of shifts results in the deprivation of sleep, because the controllers are rapidly rotated from one day to another. This drastic change of shifts is not healthy for the human body because it prevents the body from coping to the new work schedule. Another problem associated with poor scheduling is the use of counterclockwise schedules. These schedules are set such that the controller rotates to a shift that comes earlier than his or her previous shift. This disrupts the time for sleeping and waking up thus making it difficult for the body to adapt (Miro, 2003). The human body adapts well to a shift that has a later start time. Poor scheduling, therefore, is one of the major causes of sleep deprivation that makes it difficult for air traffic controllers to perform well. This results to lose of important information and failure to monitor runway in the best way as is required by air traffic rules.
The sleep loss is in another aspect affected by short rest periods that is set between shifts. Most air traffic controllers have eight to nine hours between their shifts which is not enough for them to sleep and to take satisfy their personal needs. Once the controllers finish work, they need to drive home, be together with their family and address personal matters. This leaves them with less than eight hours as is needed for an adult to rest. This means that an air traffic controller sleeps late and leaves for work early.
The brain has very little time to rest and thus it uses the explicit process rather than the information integration process. This means a lot of errors will occur during the time of carrying on duties. Short rest periods have a lot of consequences in the career of many air traffic controllers who sometimes dose off during work time. Once the controller is not in a position to control air traffic due to tiredness, air transportation becomes very dangerous and this results to plane crash (Dongen, Cadwell, 2006). It is important therefore, to provide air controllers with enough rest periods so as to have adequate sleep.
Air traffic controllers working on shift basis engage themselves in bad habits after work instead of going home for sleep. Some of them get into entertainment joints to have fun and meet their friends and thus get home very late. Engaging in bad habits results in body tiredness, fatigue and other health complications. Tiredness and little sleep make the controllers perform poor in the following shift. Air traffic controllers should not prioritize other activities than sleep because doing so jeopardizes their work. It may also lead to poor coordination of body and brain thus committing a lot of errors and reducing their capacity to do better.
Air traffic control is a risk job because it involves the lives of many individuals who are under the control of one or two officers. This therefore, means that the controller must be sober and strong when executing his or her duties. He should not engage in activities that make him or her fail to sleep. The main role of these workers is to clear the runaways and ensure that the airport is safe for landing. Thus execution of such duties requires a person with sound mind so as to avoid commission of errors. Once a minor mistake happens, the entire system collapses thus causing a lot of mess in the air port. In addition, a lot of cost is incurred to bring back operations in to normal situation (Hockey, Sauer, 1998). Any activity that may deprive sleep of an air controller should be avoided and good measures should be put in place to provide humble time for rest. Sleep is a basic need in the life of an individual thus every person should have a good schedule that allows him or her to have enough time for sleep.
The health of air traffic controllers is affected by the failure to sleep due to long work shifts. The brain is the common element of body that is affected through deprivation of sleep. Consider an air traffic controller whose schedule of work is very tight such that he or she cannot get enough sleep, his health is adversely affected due to tiredness. The same controller has no enough time for taking a balanced diet, thus his body may lack some important nutrients. Another aspect that affects the health of an individual is stress.
Many air traffic controllers work under stressful conditions whereby they must be available any time a plane is about to land, make sure that the runways are clear and ensure that the conditions are good in the air port. This calls for a lot of attention thus forcing the controller to be stressful. Stress has an impact in the health of an individual because it does away with the normal functioning of the body system. An air traffic controller who has been exposed to such conditions losses appetite, moods and he or she gets other health complications. Failing to have enough sleep has connection with individuals health especially fatigue, nausea and loss of body weight (Taylor, Geisen, 1999). When the brain is so tired, the other body organs fail to function well.
An air traffic controller may suffer from severe headache due to fatigue and the brain information integration process. These complications are caused by the failure to sleep for more than eight hours. This means that body cells are overworked without giving them enough time to rest. During the time of sleep, blood flows very well without interruption, when the body does not rest, the flow of blood becomes very much complicated leading to health complications (Jarek, Batliner, Golz, 2009).
Air traffic controller is always busy throughout the work shifts. He or she keeps on checking the condition of the runways and monitoring the traffic movement of the planes through the communication with the pilot. Computers are used in this process and at the end of day employees become very much exhausted. After work the controller should have enough sleep so as to get good rest. This however, may not happen due to particular reasons. When the controller misses to sleep he or she accumulates the condition of body tiredness leading to headache. This is one of the major health problems that air traffic controllers complain of during their time of work. This can be controlled or treated by drawing a good work schedule that allocates enough time for sleep (Ruwantissa, 2002). Once the controller sleeps well he or she will never complain of headache but failure to rest results to more health complication. It is, therefore, important to consider body rests than any other activity some as to avoid health complications like headache.
Sleep deprivation in the career of air traffic controller results in injuries while executing duties around the airport. A controller who has had no enough sleep over night may sustain injuries from objects around the work place. He or she may step on sharp metallic objects due to lack of concentration that result from sleep loss. Air traffic controller may sustain leg, hand, or any other body part injuries as a result of dozing off due to brain fatigue. The injuries sustained make the patient to get off from work so as to nurse his or her injuries. Prevention is better than cure, so for air traffic controllers to avoid injuries they need to get enough sleep for the maximum concentration in their work (Rogers, 2005).
The brain is the main organ that is concerned with processing information needed to carry out different functions. This calls for the maximum protection of this body part through the application of the laws of nature. Air traffic controllers need to work smart and avoid overworking the brain in order to have good health. Health experts recommend that an adult should have at least eight good hours for sleep and this must be observed by air traffic controllers. Body rest is the only cure for all health complications associated with sleep deprivation. However, there are some experts whom have knowledge on how to handle body health problems associated with sleep disorders.
The human brain is the engine of the body and it is the organ that coordinates the functions of other parts of human body. Therefore, it needs a lot of rest so as to enable the smooth flow of blood to every organ. Certain tasks, like air traffic control, consume a considerable amount of time leaving the controllers very little time to rest. This leads to health problems, such as eye infections, fatigue, headache, muscle cramps, and injuries resulting from the impact of the objects around the airport. Sleep deprivation, therefore, has negative effects on information processing. Failing to have enough sleep results in a more automatic information integration process that makes an individual shift information processing from the implicit to explicit method. However, the use of explicit processes or rule based strategies to implement tasks leads to errors when an individual is carrying out some tasks.
The information integration is the basic element when it comes to the execution of certain tasks including the air traffic control. Many tasks that are performed by individuals on the daily basis require the information integration rather than the rule based (explicit) process. For instance, driving, medical diagnosis and air traffic control are some tasks that require the information integration process. The front part of the brain is responsible for information processing in the body system and it requires that a person receives adequate rest (Didier, 1995). When an individual fails to sleep it becomes very difficult for him or her to carry put their professional duties as is expected.
Some tasks, such as air traffic control, are very technical and require the controller to be very attentive and concentrate on his or her work. Individuals who have good rest always apply the information integration process better than those workers who are sleep deprived. All organizations should provide their employees with a well balanced work-rest schedule so that they can have enough rest. The air traffic control sector is not an exception, because this is an area that requires controllers to work in shifts and thus they have inconsiderable time for sleep.
The National Transportation Safety Board provides information that shows how sleep deprivation has effects on the performance of air traffic controllers and other workers employed on shift basis. The effect of sleep deprivation on the air traffic controllers causes serious errors and the poor performance. Errors that occur due to tiredness include the failure to be attentive on runways and forgetting crucial information about air traffic rules. The errors occur due to the lack of good rest thus leading to the body tiredness (Tsang, Michael, 2007). Air traffic controllers fail to get enough sleep because they are at work at night when they are supposed to be asleep. The study shows that air traffic controllers have an average of two to three hours of sleep before they go for their night shifts.
The shifts are arranged in such a way that controllers work for long night hours than day hours. This leads to sleep deprivation that results from the poor scheduling of shifts, short periods of rest and bad habits. Poor scheduling of shifts results in the deprivation of sleep, because the controllers are rapidly rotated from one day to another. This drastic change of shifts is not healthy for the human body because it prevents the body from coping to the new work schedule. Another problem associated with poor scheduling is the use of counterclockwise schedules. These schedules are set such that the controller rotates to a shift that comes earlier than his or her previous shift. This disrupts the time for sleeping and waking up thus making it difficult for the body to adapt (Miro, 2003). The human body adapts well to a shift that has a later start time. Poor scheduling, therefore, is one of the major causes of sleep deprivation that makes it difficult for air traffic controllers to perform well. This results to lose of important information and failure to monitor runway in the best way as is required by air traffic rules.
The sleep loss is in another aspect affected by short rest periods that is set between shifts. Most air traffic controllers have eight to nine hours between their shifts which is not enough for them to sleep and to take satisfy their personal needs. Once the controllers finish work, they need to drive home, be together with their family and address personal matters. This leaves them with less than eight hours as is needed for an adult to rest. This means that an air traffic controller sleeps late and leaves for work early.
The brain has very little time to rest and thus it uses the explicit process rather than the information integration process. This means a lot of errors will occur during the time of carrying on duties. Short rest periods have a lot of consequences in the career of many air traffic controllers who sometimes dose off during work time. Once the controller is not in a position to control air traffic due to tiredness, air transportation becomes very dangerous and this results to plane crash (Dongen, Cadwell, 2006). It is important therefore, to provide air controllers with enough rest periods so as to have adequate sleep.
Air traffic controllers working on shift basis engage themselves in bad habits after work instead of going home for sleep. Some of them get into entertainment joints to have fun and meet their friends and thus get home very late. Engaging in bad habits results in body tiredness, fatigue and other health complications. Tiredness and little sleep make the controllers perform poor in the following shift. Air traffic controllers should not prioritize other activities than sleep because doing so jeopardizes their work. It may also lead to poor coordination of body and brain thus committing a lot of errors and reducing their capacity to do better.
Air traffic control is a risk job because it involves the lives of many individuals who are under the control of one or two officers. This therefore, means that the controller must be sober and strong when executing his or her duties. He should not engage in activities that make him or her fail to sleep. The main role of these workers is to clear the runaways and ensure that the airport is safe for landing. Thus execution of such duties requires a person with sound mind so as to avoid commission of errors. Once a minor mistake happens, the entire system collapses thus causing a lot of mess in the air port. In addition, a lot of cost is incurred to bring back operations in to normal situation (Hockey, Sauer, 1998). Any activity that may deprive sleep of an air controller should be avoided and good measures should be put in place to provide humble time for rest. Sleep is a basic need in the life of an individual thus every person should have a good schedule that allows him or her to have enough time for sleep.
The health of air traffic controllers is affected by the failure to sleep due to long work shifts. The brain is the common element of body that is affected through deprivation of sleep. Consider an air traffic controller whose schedule of work is very tight such that he or she cannot get enough sleep, his health is adversely affected due to tiredness. The same controller has no enough time for taking a balanced diet, thus his body may lack some important nutrients. Another aspect that affects the health of an individual is stress.
Many air traffic controllers work under stressful conditions whereby they must be available any time a plane is about to land, make sure that the runways are clear and ensure that the conditions are good in the air port. This calls for a lot of attention thus forcing the controller to be stressful. Stress has an impact in the health of an individual because it does away with the normal functioning of the body system. An air traffic controller who has been exposed to such conditions losses appetite, moods and he or she gets other health complications. Failing to have enough sleep has connection with individuals health especially fatigue, nausea and loss of body weight (Taylor, Geisen, 1999). When the brain is so tired, the other body organs fail to function well.
An air traffic controller may suffer from severe headache due to fatigue and the brain information integration process. These complications are caused by the failure to sleep for more than eight hours. This means that body cells are overworked without giving them enough time to rest. During the time of sleep, blood flows very well without interruption, when the body does not rest, the flow of blood becomes very much complicated leading to health complications (Jarek, Batliner, Golz, 2009).
Air traffic controller is always busy throughout the work shifts. He or she keeps on checking the condition of the runways and monitoring the traffic movement of the planes through the communication with the pilot. Computers are used in this process and at the end of day employees become very much exhausted. After work the controller should have enough sleep so as to get good rest. This however, may not happen due to particular reasons. When the controller misses to sleep he or she accumulates the condition of body tiredness leading to headache. This is one of the major health problems that air traffic controllers complain of during their time of work. This can be controlled or treated by drawing a good work schedule that allocates enough time for sleep (Ruwantissa, 2002). Once the controller sleeps well he or she will never complain of headache but failure to rest results to more health complication. It is, therefore, important to consider body rests than any other activity some as to avoid health complications like headache.
Sleep deprivation in the career of air traffic controller results in injuries while executing duties around the airport. A controller who has had no enough sleep over night may sustain injuries from objects around the work place. He or she may step on sharp metallic objects due to lack of concentration that result from sleep loss. Air traffic controller may sustain leg, hand, or any other body part injuries as a result of dozing off due to brain fatigue. The injuries sustained make the patient to get off from work so as to nurse his or her injuries. Prevention is better than cure, so for air traffic controllers to avoid injuries they need to get enough sleep for the maximum concentration in their work (Rogers, 2005).
The brain is the main organ that is concerned with processing information needed to carry out different functions. This calls for the maximum protection of this body part through the application of the laws of nature. Air traffic controllers need to work smart and avoid overworking the brain in order to have good health. Health experts recommend that an adult should have at least eight good hours for sleep and this must be observed by air traffic controllers. Body rest is the only cure for all health complications associated with sleep deprivation. However, there are some experts whom have knowledge on how to handle body health problems associated with sleep disorders.
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