Occupational and driving challenges within sleep medicine

Pilkington-Cheney, F ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8043-3137 and McNicholas, WT, 2025. Occupational and driving challenges within sleep medicine. Journal of Sleep Research, 34 (5): e70063. ISSN 0962-1105

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Abstract

Shift work is a necessity for a society that requires 24/7 services. However, working around the clock can cause a misalignment with our sleep wake cycle, resulting in sleepiness, impaired cognition and poor health. Due to the prevalence of shift work within safety critical contexts there is a need to further understand the causes and consequences of non-typical work on sleep, wellbeing, health and safety, as well as ways to effectively reduce this risk. Furthermore, disorders such as obstructive sleep apnoea, which is the most prevalent medical cause of sleepiness, compound the adverse health and safety consequences of shift work. This article provides an overview of some of the key occupational and sleep health challenges related to shift work: accurate measurement of sleepiness, mitigation, long term sustainability and work/life balance. We conclude by proposing four directions for future work in this area to consider, with the overall aim of improving the sleep, health and wellbeing of the shift working population.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Sleep Research
Creators:	Pilkington-Cheney, F. and McNicholas, W.T.
Publisher:	Wiley
Date:	October 2025
Volume:	34
Number:	5
ISSN:	0962-1105
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1111/jsr.70063 DOI 2417881 Other
Rights:	© 2025 The Author(s). Journal of Sleep Research published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Sleep Research Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Jeremy Silvester
Date Added:	28 Mar 2025 11:36
Last Modified:	13 Jan 2026 17:28
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/53318

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