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Is your workplace affected by sleep?

sleep at workI recently gave a talk to the Bundaberg/Maryborough Transport Safety Network meeting about Coping with Stress. One of the issues identified by the group was poor sleep. One of the members shared with the group that they now have a questionnaire regarding sleep included with their drivers’ initial and annual medicals.  Since doing this there has been a noticeable improvement of less irritability amongst employees.

So what is the deal about sleep?

Many things are affected by poor sleep such as behaviour, emotions, ability to plan and make decisions, concentration, creativity, learning and health.

The questionnaire used to determine if sleepiness could be a health issue is the Epworth Sleepiness Scale. Two links are Epworth Sleepiness Scale Online version or Epworth Sleepiness Scale PDF version

Other useful links:

Toolbox Talk #7: Fatigue

Young people and fatigue

Fatigue & your Workplace

Fatigue & your Workplace Infographic

How to identify fatigue in your workplace

Is your workplace being affected by poor employee sleep patterns?

About David Lawson

Finding the Light is a locally owned and operated counselling and life coaching business based in Bundaberg. We seek to empower our clients to find their way forward to a better life by using the approaches of counselling or coaching. If this blog article has raised more questions please contact us by email or call us on 0407 585 497 to arrange a time for us to discuss the article. Mention this blog and we will give you a FREE 30 minute session to discuss.

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