What is the relationship between sleep problems and work-related injury?
I’ve posted a few studies in the past (links below) exploring relative risks or odds ratios of work-related accidents due to different work schedules.
An upcoming meta-analysis I’m posting (although from 2014, so caveat on the age of data) explored this question in relation to various types of work injuries and reported sleep problems.
Overall, they found those reporting sleep problems were 1.62 more likely to receive a work injury.
Those receiving fatal injuries were nearly two times more likely to have reported or faced sleep problems, and nearly three times for those reporting obstructive sleep apnoea or insomnia.
They conclude that somewhere around 13% of work injuries had sleep problems as a contributing or central factor.
Authors: Uehli, K., Mehta, A. J., Miedinger, D., Hug, K., Schindler, C., Holsboer-Trachsler, E., … & Künzli, N. (2014). Sleep medicine reviews, 18(1), 61-73.
Study link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smrv.2013.01.004
Link to the LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/benhutchinson2_what-is-the-relationship-between-sleep-problems-activity-7035022964731387904-85hc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
Other sleep/accident data:
2. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/high-risk-near-crash-driving-events-following-work-ben-hutchinson
3. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/updating-risk-index-systematic-review-meta-analysis-work-hutchinson
4. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fatigue-alcohol-performance-impairment-ben-hutchinson
SafetyInsights.org 
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