Comprehensive Report on Fatigue: Causes, Risks, and Solutions

This report delves into the multifaceted issue of fatigue, a biological condition characterized by a lack of energy, encompassing both physical and mental aspects. It differentiates fatigue from drowsiness and explores the problems it can cause, including workplace accidents, psychiatric issues like depression, and health complications such as heart disease and diabetes. The report outlines the signs and symptoms of fatigue, such as impaired decision-making, changes in eating habits, and blurry vision, while also examining associated risk factors like smoking, diabetes, and age. It presents strategies for managing fatigue, including identifying health hazards, assessing risks, implementing control measures, and monitoring their effectiveness. Furthermore, the report suggests management approaches such as extended work periods and shift changes. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of proactive measures by top management to reduce fatigue, ensuring individuals have the resources to perform activities effectively, and thereby achieving organizational goals.

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Having knowledge in health matters is something of great important. It is very difficult
for some people to tell exactly what they are undergoing without serious diagnosis. Individuals
may have problems such as lack of sleep or body weakness thus ending taking them as normal.
Biologically, these problems occur due to improper functioning of the body such as fatigue.
Simply, fatigue is a biological situation that is characterized by lack of energy involving both
physical and mentally. In addition, it is different from drowsiness that always explains the
demand to sleep although both of them they may occur at the same time (Cristian, 2009). The
purpose of this fatigue report is to explain the various problems that an individual may
experience, signs of fatigue, risks associated with fatigue and various steps to follow when
managing it. In addition, it will help us to highlight the proposed strategies for fatigue
management and its relationship to the control of hierarchy.
People having fatigue may cause various problems not only to the entire society but also
to their places of work. They can also cause problems to themselves thus causing disruption to
their day-to-day activities. First, fatigue can cause accidents and other risk injuries especially at
places of work. This may be due to body weakness and muscles contractions. Secondly,
psychiatric issues such as depression can rise thus leading many individuals to assume that it is
occurring due to their state of aging. It can also bring about problem of failure to complete some
assigned duties due to mental fatigue resulting from low concentration (Greenwald, 2009). Vital
diagnosis of fatigue can also lead to health problems making the victim uncomfortable. These
health problems may include but not the list as heart disease, diabetes, and dryness of the skin.
Incorporation of the fatigue in the body can lead to poor decision making concerning a certain
individual movement thus having effect on performance and productivity.

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Biologically, any healthy problem causing mysterious life to the individuals has its own
signs and symptoms (Hirshkowitz, 2013). Therefore, fatigue being one of the healthy problems
has effect on judgment due to its symptomatic nature of impaired decision-making. Furthermore,
people having fatigue may feel abnormal since most of them cannot sustain effective and
efficient eating habits they had before. This causes them to develop a sense of reduced immune
system function to their body functioning thus making body to weaken. Blurry vision and short-
term memory problems may also be associated with fatigue. The reason being fatigue attack
destructs mental functioning resulting to less concentration.
When a certain disease attacks body immune system, there is establishment of various
modifiable risk factors due to the inter-relating effect between the function and consumption.
Risks that are associated with fatigue may include smoking, diabetes, and high blood pressure.
During smoking, the affection may be tremendous on chest attack thus causing difficulties in
breathing. It is through this that it may result to fatigue (Sharafkhaneh, 2013). Physical inactivity
of diabetes involving high blood cholesterol may lead to improper function of the body cells thus
creating difficulties in breathing due to blockage of blood vessels. Force flow of blood causes
blood pressure thus creating a very large room to depression.
In real sense, fatigue attack is not on all people but it always depends on various
contributing factors. Biologically, it is a fact that age matters a lot when it comes to different
attacking disease. Fatigue being a disease affects individuals at old age due to their relaxation
effect to the surrounding. In addition, historic background of individuals may play a role in
explain the existence of various types of diseases. For instance, if an individual in the same
family had fatigue infection, the same family will experience the same problem in future stage
(Greenwald, 2009). Ethnic groups also contribute to the development of risks because the peers

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among the groups may influence the other members to follow their footsteps. They can influence
the members in the society to follow their cultural activities thus initiating risk behaviors to the
society.
It becomes so difficult to manage something without knowing the exact steps and
procedures to follow to ensure effective control. After diagnosis, it is a requirement by the
healthy professionals to maintain fatigue with an aim of avoiding vital destructions and
avoidance to work. The following are the steps to follow while maintaining fatigue;
identification of health hazards if of great important (Sharafkhaneh, 2013). This entails detailed
explanation of what extreme fatigue can cause to the various states of environments. Secondly,
assessment of the risks involves weighing the available risks whether has effect of initiation
while handling fatigue itself. In addition, deciding on the control measures follows with an
immediate effect aiming at minimizing or preventing the levels of various associating risks. The
last step involves monitoring and reviewing the efficiency and effectiveness of the established
control measures.
After controlling the fatigue, the final step is to manage the fatigue with employment of
various methods especially from the top management. The decision to manage the fatigue is
because of observation from the top managers in case of employment thus initiating for the
management. Individuals can extend the period duration for their work they are undertaking for
their mind to remain active but it should not exceed the maximum period (Cristian, 2009). In
addition, the change of shift is recommended to ensure that people they are not bored with the
same shift following day-to-day activities. Use of biological parameters is useful especially in
measuring the fatigue to evaluate the levels of fatigue especially in grow management

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consultants. This ensures daily rhythms of required body temperature and levels of melatonin
hormone have sustainability.
In conclusion, in modern industry fatigue is a significant problem due to job stress and
accumulation in sleep debt. Therefore, the top managers and the decision-making should work
positively on reducing the fatigue in their areas of jobs thus ensuring each individual has rightful
resources to perform the activities effectively. In doing so, the various biological parameters will
go into extortion making the organization to attain its goals and objectives.
Reference list
Cristian, A., & Greenwald, B. D. (2009). Fatigue. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders.
In Hirshkowitz, M., & In Sharafkhaneh, A. (2013). Fatigue. London: Elsevier.