Research highlights on Health & Wellbeing at work Presented by Professor Sally Ferguson Director Appleton Institute, CQUni

1. In the spirit of reconciliation, CQUniversity recognises the Traditional Owners of the lands on which we live, work and learn
and I pay my respects to elders past, present and future.
I acknowledge we are on Kaurna Country.
Know Your Country logo by Rachael Sarra, Goreng Goreng CC BY-NC-N4 4.0

2. Work, Sleep, Health, Safety
Professor Sally Ferguson
APPLETON INSTITUTE

3. https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-working-conditions/working-arrangements/latest-release

4. Figure modified from
(Dijk & Edgar, 1999).
Data double-plotted.

6. • Hours of work
• Pattern of work
• Workplace environment
Work Design
• Sleep rhythms
• Waking activity rhythms
• Social and domestic
interactions
Disruptions
• Physiological
• Psychological
• Cognitive
Health impacts

7. Donald M. Lloyd-Jones. Circulation, 146(5), e18-e43,2022
DOI: (10.1161/CIR.0000000000001078)
© 2022 American Heart Association, Inc.

8. NEW RESEARCH - FOR HEALTHAND PERFORMANCE
• Sedentary time and night work – interventions to break up sitting
• Food intake around the clock – optimising what, when and how much
• New to shiftwork – co-designing tools for young workers to help with the
balance
• Sleep health in shiftworkers – pathways to diagnoses and treatment
• Tailoring work patterns to the individual – light, circadian timing
• Fatigue risk management in emergency services – co-designing a system
• Goldilocks approaches to movement – healthcare and rail
• On-call workers – what’s happening to sleep

9. Predictive
Proactive
Reactive
Health and wellbeing data collected and analysed
Aggregated reporting feeding back
Work design for wellbeing and productivity
Risk assessments for health and wellbeing outcomes
Employees reporting and supported
Screening and monitoring programs

10. sally.ferguson@cqu.edu.au
APPLETON INSTITUTE