Human Fatigue Risk Management

Chapter 4

Sleep hygiene recommendations

Abstract

For employees or critical personnel that fall under the fatigue risk management system, this chapter describes common environmental and behavioral factors that interfere with sleep and countermeasures that may remedy the source of the sleep disruption. Sleep hygiene refers to ways to clean up the sleep routine and the sleep environment to improve the ability to increase sleep duration and consolidation throughout the night as well as decrease sleep onset latency. These recommendations are particularly important for shift workers who might not be sleeping during the optimal time of day. If an employee is having difficulty sleeping, these recommendations will provide starting points and ideas to improve ...