Title:
Study
the Relation between Accidents, Sleepiness and Exhaustion in Indian
Textile Industrial Workers
Author Information (List of authors,
Institute/organisation)
Ajeet Jaiswal,
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Pondicherry University,
Puducherry, India. Email: rpgajeet@gmail.com,
Abstract:
Introduction: Shift work is growing in modern society as an
important tool for flexibility of work organization. The aim
of this study
was to examine
the rate of
exhaustion and sleepiness
around the shift and non-shift
workers and its relation to occupational accidents.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional study on
the workers of Indian Textile Industrial Group. They included 148 shift workers as the case
and 141 non-shift workers as the control.
A multi-part questionnaire including demographic characteristics, Piper
Fatigue Scale (PFS) and Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) were applied. The X2
test and t-test were used to measure
differences between variables.
Results: The mean of PFS scores in the two groups was
significantly different (p=0.045), but the difference in the mean of ESS scores
was not significant. Shift workers with the reported accident had a higher
score on fatigue than shift workers with
no accident (p<0.001)
whereas the difference
in the number
of accidents in the
two groups was
not related significantly to the rate of sleepiness. The
rate of fatigue or exhaustion and
the number of the work
accidents was more
in the shift
workers. Also, fatigue or exhaustion had a stronger relationship with
the occupational accidents as compared to sleepiness.
Conclusions: It seems that evaluation of exhaustion
as compared to
sleepiness is a
more accurate factor
for preventing work
accidents.
Key words: Textile workers, Textile
Industry, Shift work, Sleepiness, Exhaustion or Fatigue, Accidents.
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