The quality of sleep, more than the quantity, has a lot to do with save behaviors in the workplace, according to Colorado State University (CSU) researchers who studied the relationship between the two as it applied to Portland-area construction workers.
The research, which was part of an Oregon Healthy Workforce study, compared the workers’ self-reported sleep patterns with reports of safety behavior and workplace injuries. It was co-authored by Rebecca Brossoit, a Ph.D. student in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at CSU, and trainee in Occupational Health Psychology through the Mountain and Plains Education and Research Center; Tori Crain, assistant professor in CSU’s Department of Psychology and Jordyn Leslie, former CSU undergraduate and current research assistant in Crain’s lab; with collaborators at Oregon Health and Science University, Portland State University and University of Limerick.