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A federal program that protects the health and wellbeing of commercial fishermen should be expanded to include substance use disorder and worker fatigue, a group of lawmakers from New England and Alaska said. The lawmakers want to expand a federal commercial fishing occupational safety program that funds research and training. Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who is one of the lawmakers pushing for the change, said expanding the program would help fishermen access more safety training a...

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Or gael monfils in the third round. you can get all the latest sports news at our website — thats bbc.com/sport. but from me, tulsen tollett, and the rest of the team thats your sports news for now. now to hong kong — where a novel new way to combat worker fatigue has been introduced. bus company ulu travel have launched the first sleeping coach for tired workers to recharge. costing anywhere between 99 and 399 hong kong dollars — it has been a sell out so far. and its easy to see why. 70%...

Tackling this problem? >> reporter: theyre looking at if from several angles but theres lots of pushback from different interests in this thing. at the end of it all, jon, worker fatigue is a huge issue. theres no shortage of studies that confirm that sleep deprivation, deprivation or simple firedness with be an impediment to coming any swrans, in the face of that, the secretary of transportation is imposing a zero tolerance policy against sleeping on the job. >> were not going to let money comp...