Fitness for Duty Misses One Thing—Your Brain.

If a worker can lift, climb, and pass a drug test…are they safe?

Not if their cognition is offline.
Fatigue. Stress. Micro-distractions. Split-second decisions in high-risk environments. That’s where incidents are born.

Neurapulse adds the missing piece: cognitive readiness is your team’s moment-to-moment capacity to perceive, decide, and act safely.

Why this matters (fast)

• Safety: Most serious incidents include a decision error somewhere in the chain.
• Productivity: Clear thinking reduces rework, delays, and miscommunication.
• Liability: Showing you measured cognitive readiness makes your due diligence defensible.

What Neurapulse does

Short, job-relevant assessments that check alertness and decision-making before and during safety-sensitive work.
No medical history. No diagnosis. Just readiness. Use it pre-hire, daily, before critical moments, post-incident, Return to Work, or when supervisors have concerns (Reasonable Cause).

“But will crews accept it?”

Only if you roll it out for them, not at them. We give supervisors and employees the “why,” the “how,” and the “what’s in it for me.”

Grab this to make it easy:
Cognitive Safety Objection + FAQ Toolkit — plain-language answers to the top questions from workers, unions, and leadership. Objection + FAQ Toolkit

Three hard truths leaders can’t ignore

1. Drug & alcohol testing ≠ alertness. You can be sober and still unsafe.
2. Fatigue is invisible until it isn’t. Near-misses are your early warning.
3. Policies must evolve. If “fit for duty” doesn’t include cognition, it’s incomplete.

How Safety, HR, and Ops win together

• Safety: Fewer decision errors. Cleaner investigations. Stronger just-culture.
• HR: Clear, fair processes for fitness decisions—less conflict, more trust.
• Operations: Faster starts, fewer stoppages, better handoffs between shifts.

Quick rollout playbook (5 steps)

1. Policy insert → add cognitive readiness to Fit-for-Duty.
2. Supervisor training → when to use it, what to do next, how to document.
3. Baseline & norms → set expectations for roles and tasks.
4. Daily checks where risk is highest → short, simple, consistent.
5. Close the loop → if someone flags High Risk, follow a task-based path back to work.

Want the smallest next step?

Run through our Cognitive Fitness Scorecard in 6 minutes:

Neurapulse Scorecard — a quick self-check to see where cognitive risk hides in your operation. Cognitive Fitness Scorecard

If the score stings a little, that’s good. It means you’ve found leverage.

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Bottom line: The cost of not knowing your crew’s cognitive readiness is higher than the cost of measuring it.
Measure what matters. Protect your people. Protect your business.

Final Thought: Culture Is Built in the Pause

The next time this happens, your supervisor won’t get a rehearsal. No pause button. No time to guess.

You’ll either have a system or a story you can’t take back. Let’s build the system now.

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Ready to Shift?

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If there is anything that hits a little too close to home, that’s okay. We’re here to help you fix it, before it hits the fan.