From my own experience, I would say that it is the deviation from a person's own natural sleep rhythms that is the problem. I am a night owl, and when I was working a normal schedule, I tended to fall asleep while driving on the way to work in the morning, but had no trouble staying awake on the way home after working late.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-05/uom-sdw051321.php
News Release 13-May-2021
University of Missouri-Columbia
People who work nontraditional work hours, such as 11 p.m.-7 a.m., or the "graveyard" shift, are more likely than people with traditional daytime work schedules to develop a chronic medical condition -- shift work sleep disorder -- that disrupts their sleep. According to researchers at the University of Missouri, people who develop this condition are also three times more likely to be involved in a vehicle accident.
•••••
As the demand for 24/7 business operations has increased in recent years to meet customer needs during all hours of the day and across multiple time zones, the traditional work day -- once defined as 9 a.m.-5 p.m. -- has shifted for many people to include evening and night shifts, causing sleeping difficulties and leading to shift work sleep disorder. Edara said he was surprised to see shift work sleep disorder increase the risk of a traffic crash by nearly 300%, as compared to both sleep apnea and insomnia, which both increased the risk of a crash by approximately 30%.
•••••
No comments:
Post a Comment