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How Construction Hydration Saves Employers Thousands by Reducing Mistakes and Lost Workdays

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  Unexpected costs, late milestones, and incident reports quickly drain your budget. On most sites, the main culprit is not the gear. It’s dehydration, which reduces focus (mental processing), stamina, and awareness. You can link better hydration to faster tasks, fewer errors, and safer days. The Hidden Costs You Can Measure You start at 6:30 am with cool air, and you want that pace to hold. By lunch, output fades and rework grows. Even mild dehydration can slow work rate by about 2-3% in the morning. That looks small until it stretches a three-day task into four and adds overtime. A carpenter in Brisbane misread a line by 5 mm at 12:45 pm and replaced a full sheet, plus one hour of rework for two people. That is paid time without progress. Focus and decisions also dip as fluid levels fall. An electrician described a mislabelled breaker at 1:40 pm that took forty minutes to trace and reset. What would one fewer rework per week be worth to you? The mid-afternoon crash is not lazines...