Safety Moment
When working at night, challenges can include poor visibility for motorists and workers, impaired or drowsy drivers, and lack of communication between shifts.
Working at night may also cause physical and social disruptions, such as sleep deprivation and disruption, risk of injury from drowsiness and impaired family or social relationships. During night work, use special precautions at the work site. Above all, you must increase visibility and know your surroundings.
Night work can create issues for your body. It is important to compensate for this as your health habits can make a huge difference in your performance.
During fall and winter, you will find yourself spending more time driving in the dark. Depth perception, colour recognition, and peripheral vision can be compromised in the dark, and the glare of headlights from an oncoming vehicle can temporarily blind a driver.
Even with high-beam headlights on, visibility is limited to about 250 ft (76 m) to 500 ft (152 m) for normal headlights, creating less time to react to something on the road, especially when driving at higher speeds.