Season 1 #Episode 13 Fatigue Management in High Risk Industries (Mining, Oil, Gas, Aviation, Rail)

Sleep4Performance Radio Episode #15

Fatigue Management in High Risk Industries (Mining, Oil, Gas, Aviation, Rail)

This week’s guest is Todd Dawson from Caterpillar (Yes, the company that makes big mining and construction equipment). Todd works with Caterpillar Safety Services as the Global Fatigue Solutions Manager.

Todd graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Biological Anthropology where he focused on circadian rhythms and hormones, writing a senior thesis on the effects of working night shift on human salivary cortisol. Todd went on to become a leader in the field of human fatigue management. Over the past 20 years he has worked all over the globe and in many industries implementing fatigue risk management systems, providing training to shiftworkers, and implementing technologies to mitigate fatigue. He also enjoys the great outdoors and is an avid fisherman and hunter as well as the occasional binge watcher of Vikings, Supernatural, Game of Thrones and documentaries. Todd currently lives just outside Boston, Massachusetts. 

Contact Todd Dawson
Fatigue Solutions Manager 
Caterpillar, Inc. 
Dawson_Todd_A@cat.com 
cell: 617-759-2117