Do rail workers still have a ‘feast-and-famine’ sleep pattern post-Covid?

|Publish Date: Jun 11, 2025|Keywords: Contemporary EHF 2025, Fatigue & sleep, Publications, Rail|

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Anna Vereker, Barbro Årnes & Claire Watt-Coombes
Abstract
This paper presents key findings from the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) 2023 UK rail industry fatigue survey. A similar survey was run in 2018 and found that rail workers (especially shift workers) generally had a ‘feast-and-famine’ sleep pattern. We are now able to compare 2018 results with those from the 2023 survey to ascertain if this pattern still exists and to consider how features of fatigue risk management may have changed for rail workers in the post-covid period.