Sleep tips for night shift workers

Daytime sleep is usually lighter, shorter and of poorer quality than night time sleep and with everyone stuck at home at the moment it can be considerably harder to get your head down. Using all the suggestions above and these below will help make your environment more favourable for sleeping:

• sleep in your bedroom and avoid using it for other activities such as watching television, eating and working
• use heavy curtains, blackout blinds or eye shades to darken the bedroom
• turn your mobile phone off or put it on silence, divert calls to voicemail, use an answer machine and turn the ringer down on your landline
• ask your family or people that you live with not to disturb you and to keep the noise down when you are sleeping
• discuss your work pattern with close neighbours and ask them to try and avoid noisy activities during your sleep time
• if it is too noisy to sleep consider using earplugs, white noise or background music to mask external noises
• adjust the bedroom temperature to a comfortable level, cool conditions improve sleep.

MORE USEFUL INFO:

HSE - Hints and Tips for Shift Workers

Freightlink's 13 Ways to Drive Safely on a Night Shift