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<p><b>Alarm fatigue</b> or <b>alert fatigue</b> describes how busy workers (in the case of health care, <a href="page.php?w=Clinician">clinicians</a>) become desensitized to safety alerts, and as a result ignore or fail to respond appropriately to such warnings.  Alarm fatigue occurs in many fields, including <a href="page.php?w=construction">construction</a> and <a href="page.php?w=mining">mining</a> (where <a href="page.php?w=back-up_beeper">vehicle back-up alarm</a>s sound so frequently that they often become senseless <a href="page.php?w=background_noise">background noise</a>),</p><p>
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