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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.
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.