Railroaders' Guide to Healthy Sleep
Maximizing Your Performance
The Role of Sleep Health for Railroaders
With some simple adjustments, you can improve your sleep—and your life. Smart sleep strategies can help you perform your job safely, enjoy family and community life, see friends, and even squeeze in sports or other leisure activities. Better sleep can lead to better health. Members of your household and support network play an important role in achieving this, and may benefit personally from these tactics as well.
If you work an on-call, unpredictable schedule, you frequently go to bed and get up at different times. Even if you work a fixed schedule, you m...
Sleep strategies differ from person to person, yet there are some approaches that are consistently used with good success among railroaders....
Railroading career challenges - a railroader's story...
If you work an on-call, unpredictable schedule, you frequently go to bed and get up at different times. Even if you work a fixed schedule, you m...
Dan shares his story as a locomotive engineer and brakeman who works at night. He talks about the challenges of night work and how he manages to...
There are several things you can do to prepare and manage your time for optimal sleep, especially if you regularly work at night. ...
People who frequently short-change themselves on sleep forget how great it feels to be well-rested. They get used to feeling tired all the time ...
Savvy railroaders have devised tactics to cope with their often unpredictable hours. They have figured out how to best g...
Your life will feel more balanced if you make an effort to optimize your comfort wherever you are. Here are some tips to...
These two seemingly opposed internal processes—the body clock and the sleep drive—work together to make it possible for ...