In Perth this week, researchers and safety leaders from across the globe have gathered to confront a truth that high-stakes industries have long struggled to fully reckon with: exhaustion is not a personal failing but a systemic hazard, one that quietly shapes the outcomes of surgeries, flights, mine shifts, and night drives. The 11th International Conference on Managing Fatigue, convening August 11 through 13 at the University of Western Australia, brings together sleep scientists, engineers, and occupational experts to examine how the degraded human body performs under pressure — and what or