There have been three air traffic contol employees found asleep on the job. these employees are working the midnight shift when they are the only ones inside the control room. the cases are not all in the same airport they have been found accross the nation. one of the employees that was found sleeping actually had a blanket and pillow in the control room which shows that he has done this on many different occasioins.
http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/story/2011/04/Air-controllers-to-get-more-rest-between-shifts/46218046/1
recently there has been new rules put into place stating that employees must have nine hours inbetween each shift. I think that this is a good idea. there are more things that could be done to trya nd stop this incident from happening again. I think that shifts need to be split into six hours shifts. I know that it sounds bad because peoples hours will be cut but I think that it will require people to work more often becuase their shifts will be shorter.
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