Occupational Safety - Safety Managers
“SFSS” Safety First Sleep Solutions" can reduce employee risk of sleep deprivation and related accidents by providing screening, diagnosis and treatment of sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is a disorder that affects approximately 18 million Americans and has the potential for serious and even fatal complications. Ignoring sleep apnea can open you up to major liability issues and operational problems.
Learn more about Sleep Apnea on our FAQs page.
As a safety manager you can:- Ignore the problem and hope it goes away.
- Be proactive – screen, test, treat, and monitor compliance.
Preferred Vendor:
Having a “preferred vendor”, when your HR department requires medical certification pending a sleep study, can avoid a host of operational problems caused by anxious employees waiting for appointments for in-lab sleep studies.
Screening:
Working with your recruiting and Human Resources department Safety First will develop a screening process to be used for all employees to decide which employees warrant sleep apnea testing. Screening programs can range from minimal screening using FMCSA-MRB guidelines to more accurate and specific screening questionnaires.
Testing:
Using home sleep testing equipment provides a more cost effective testing option than in-lab polysomnography used by most sleep apnea testing and treatment firms.
Safety First can arrange on-site in-truck testing options conducted at your facility or other locations with our MeRV (Medical Resource Vehicle). We can make it convenient for employee home testing that is quick and efficient.
Home sleep studies can be shipped to your employees and taken on their time (at home or sleep environment of choice) depending on your requirements.
Treatment:
Safety First will use any of the major brands of CPAP on the market to create a treatment program tailored to your operational needs. Safety First can also create a working combination for CPAP use in mobile and transport operations.
Providing 24/7 employee/patient phone support, Safety First knows the operations nightmares a medically out of service employee can cause for a profitable operation.
Compliance Monitoring:
Safety First Sleep Solutions can download compliance data from any major CPAP brand and keep your employees ready for their next physical by providing compliance data downloads and information to medical examiners and other healthcare professionals.
Act now and set up a sleep apnea screening, testing, treatment, and compliance program.
