![]() Taking care of yourself is a huge part of 24/7 safety. Self-Injury Awareness Dayĭid you know that nearly two million Americans engage in self-harm? March 1 is host to a global awareness event called Self-Injury Awareness Day. Sleep Awareness Week is a great time to talk to employees about creating good sleep habits and setting a realistic sleep schedule to ensure proper sleep (and allow time to pay back sleep debt) to improve their safety not only on the job but off the job as well. Sleep debt has known effects on type 2 diabetes, increased risk for depression, severe mood swings, mental illness, stroke and asthma attacks. Being tired might not seem like a big deal to most but fatigue has been proven to decrease concentration, motivation, reaction times, accuracy, and attention and increase errors, serious incidents, expenses, stress, and distraction, ultimately impacting normal daily functions in a negative way.Īnd it doesn’t only affect your work. ![]() “Sleep Awareness Week is a time of year when everyone is reminded about the importance of our sleep and how it affects the way we feel and perform each day,” said Temitayo Oyegbile-Chidi, MD, PhD, Chair of the NSF Board of Directors.įatigue is an important off-the-job safety topic as there aren’t many workplaces that pay you to sleep. The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) recognizes Sleep Awareness Week beginning at the start of daylight saving time each year. March is often the month when you start incurring sleep debt-if you need 8 hours of sleep per night but you only get 5, you have 3 hours of sleep debt-due to losing an hour to daylight saving time. Include these topics and the following three for March in your safety meetings or as a toolbox talk. March has a number of specific off-the-job safety topics that could change the way employees react at work like the weather changing, getting a head start on spring cleanup and the time changing too. Talking about safety 24/7 is a great way to highlight risk outside of the workplace. Off-the-job events are directly linked to safety on the job-things that affect us outside of work don’t fall off our radar as soon as we punch in to be on duty for work.
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