a Appleton Institute, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences , CQUniversity , Adelaide , Australia.
b Deakin University , Burwood , Australia.
Chronobiol Int. 2019 Jun;36(6):758-769. doi: 10.1080/07420528.2019.1578969. Epub 2019 Apr 24.
Almost one-third of Australians report having made errors at work that are related to sleep issues. While there is significant literature investigating the role of sleep in workplace health and safety in shiftworking and nightwork operations, long working hours, work-family conflict, and commute times getting longer also impact day workers' sleep behaviors and opportunities. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between sleep duration and disorders, sleep health and hygiene factors, work-related factors and errors at work in Australian workers. From a sample of 1011 Australian adults, age-adjusted binary logistic regression analyses were conducted in 512 workers who provided responses to the question "Thinking about the past three months, how many days did you make errors at work because you were too sleepy or you had a sleep problem?" A number of sleep behaviors and poor sleep hygiene factors were linked with work errors related to sleepiness or sleep problems, with age-adjusted odds of errors (confidence intervals) up to 11.6 times higher (5.4-25.1, p < 0.001) in those that snored, 7.7 (4.6-12.9) times higher in those reporting more than three sleep issues (p < 0.001), 7.0 times higher (3.4-14.8) in short (≤5 hours/night) sleepers (p < 0.021), 6.1 times higher (2.9-12.7) in those staying up later than planned most nights of the week (p< 0.001) and 2.4 times higher (1.6-3.7) in those drinking alcohol ≥3 nights/week before bed (p < 0.001). More than 40% of participants working non-standard hours reported making errors at work, and they were more likely to be young (compared to the main sample of workers) and more likely to engage in work activities in the hour before bed. Sleep factors (other than clinical sleep disorders) were associated with an increased likelihood of sleep-related work errors. Both day workers and those working non-standard hours engage in work, sleep and health behaviors that do not support good sleep health, which may be impacting safety and productivity in the workplace through increased sleepiness-related errors.
将近三分之一的澳大利亚人报告在工作中犯过与睡眠问题有关的错误。虽然有大量文献研究了睡眠在轮班和夜班工作中的工作场所健康和安全中的作用，但工作时间长、工作-家庭冲突以及通勤时间的延长也会影响白班工人的睡眠行为和机会。本研究旨在调查澳大利亚工人的睡眠时间和障碍、睡眠健康和卫生因素、与工作相关的因素与工作中的错误之间的关系。在对 1011 名澳大利亚成年人进行样本调整后，对 512 名提供了“考虑过去三个月，您有多少天因为太困或有睡眠问题而在工作中犯错误？”问题答案的工人进行了二元逻辑回归分析。一些睡眠行为和较差的睡眠卫生因素与与困倦或睡眠问题相关的工作错误有关，调整年龄后的错误发生率（置信区间）高达 11.6 倍（5.4-25.1，p <0.001）在打鼾的人中，报告超过三个睡眠问题的人（p <0.001）的风险增加了 7.7 倍（4.6-12.9），睡眠时间较短（每晚≤5 小时）的人（p <0.021）的风险增加了 7.0 倍（3.4-14.8），每周大多数晚上计划熬夜的人（p<0.001）的风险增加了 6.1 倍（2.9-12.7），每周在睡前饮酒≥3 晚的人（p <0.001）的风险增加了 2.4 倍（1.6-3.7）。超过 40%的非标准工作时间的工人报告在工作中犯错误，他们更年轻（与工人的主要样本相比），并且更有可能在睡前一小时内从事工作活动。睡眠因素（除临床睡眠障碍外）与增加睡眠相关工作错误的可能性有关。白班工人和非标准工作时间的工人从事的工作、睡眠和健康行为都不利于良好的睡眠健康，这可能会通过增加与困倦相关的错误来影响工作场所的安全和生产力。
