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Occupational Injuries related to Sleepiness in Indian Traditional

Industries
Introduction
A cross-sectional survey was conducted in small and medium-scale enterprises to
prove the link between sleep and occupational injuries. Some history of the subject is
many lines of evidence support the fact that workers are not getting a sufficient amount of
sleep before work. That being said, the scientists already knew that besides sleep, social
factors such as working condition, shift work, age, job stress, long working hours, lack of
work knowledge, and unhealthy lifestyles also had an impact on occupational injuries.
The researchers wanted to bring a light to the fact that sleep is very important in terms of
maintaining safety and production during work, and quality sleep should be high on the
priority list of an employee.
The relevance to both science and the world is sleep is important for bodily
functions and more injuries in the workplace can be avoided if employees take the
initiative to get quality sleep at night. This topic is of value because it will raise attention
to the factors that affect work safety and productivity. This is important to the world and
will benefit society by proving certain factors can have an impact in the workplace and
those factors can be dealt with or eliminated, improving both safety and productivity.
According to Jaiswal (2012), This experimental analytical study was done to determine
sleepiness and its relation with the rate of injury of workers of Indian Traditional
Industries (p. 257). With knowledge of previous studies, the researchers were already
aware of a relation between sleepiness and occupational injuries, so they decided to focus
on small and medium-scale enterprises in India.

Materials and Methods


The researchers used the method of a cross-sectional study with a self-rating
questionnaire to collect data from May 2008 to December 2008. The experiment focused
on small enterprises in two Districts of Uttar Pradesh, India, questioning enterprises of 1
to 135 workers. The main source of data came from using a self-rating questionnaire. The
workers were picked randomly to answer the questionnaire, with a 70.23% response rate.
Jaiswal (2012) stated, The workers completed a questionnaire asking about
demographics, current job and business type, occupational injury, sleep, symptoms of
depression, lifestyle factors, and presence of diseases (p. 251). The questionnaire didnt
purely focus on sleeping habits, which helped with collecting accurate data pertaining to
the experiment of sleepiness effectiveness.
Results
The results of the study were sleeping problems such as difficulty sleeping,
sleeping poorly, sleep insufficiency, and insomnia symptoms are modest but significant in
the association with the frequency of occupational injuries in small and medium-scale
businesses. The results of the current study were expected due to the knowledge of
several previous studies, and the data collected was consistent with past studies.
Discussion
In discussion, the researchers were able to collect data to show a relation between
sleepiness and occupational injuries in Indian Traditional Industries. Enough data was
collect to establish a conclusion that bad sleeping habits are codependent with
occupational injury, and this theory proved true in Indian Traditional Industries. The way

the study was conducted is one of the most accurate ways to measure sleeping habits and
social factors, that way being a questionnaire. The experiment is depending on the
workers sampled honesty, but there simply isnt a more efficient way of measuring
sleeping habits and social factors of hundreds of people.
The limitations of the study were the data was collected using a questionnaire,
which is purely dependent on the honestly of workers. Another limitation of the study
was the questionnaire wasnt distributed to 310 workers for a variety of reasons, such as
inability to recruit workers, workers declining participation, workers retiring, and the
factory being too far to visit. The focus on small to medium-scale enterprises was
necessary for this study because those size of enterprises engage in more dangerous and
hazardous work than larger-scale enterprises. Lastly, the researchers considered a number
of social factors linked to occupational injuries and didnt focus primarily on sleeping
habits, which lead to more accurate data.

Bibliography
Jaiswal, A. (2012). Occupational Injuries related to Sleepiness in Indian Traditional Industries.
Human Biology Review, 248-267.

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