7/25/2023 0 Comments Sleeping on the jobLong work hours, changing time zones, shifting daylight hours that impact our biological clocks, and critical safety tasks that require people to be functioning well and working as a team. Having trained as a commercial pilot before moving into academia, Leigh is particularly suited to helping the aviation industry address the challenges many of its staff are faced with. When it comes to workplace settings, sleep is vitally important in terms of preventing fatigue-related accidents.Īir New Zealand's inaugural flight NZ2 makes its descent above New York City. Lack of sleep impacts our mood, our emotional regulation, our immune system functioning, our metabolism and how we function on different basic tasks. As more and more experiments are done, the importance of sleep becomes more evident. She’s a professor in fatigue management and sleep health at Massy University, Wellington, with a focus on applying sleep science to workplace settings.įor her work, Leigh stays up to date with the ever-evolving and wide-ranging research related to basic sleep science. It is as important to us as eating and drinking," says Professor Leigh Signal, who is on a campaign for the vital importance of sleep to be recognised. "Sleep is an absolutely fundamental biological process. Follow Our Changing World on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeartRADIO, Google Podcasts, RadioPublic or wherever you listen to your podcasts
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