TY - JOUR T1 - Systematic reviews of interventions for preventing sleep-related injuries JF - Injury Prevention JO - Inj Prev SP - 428 LP - 428 DO - 10.1136/ip.2009.024984 VL - 15 IS - 6 A2 - , Y1 - 2009/12/01 UR - http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/15/6/428.abstract N2 - Sleepiness is an important risk factor for injury. Insufficient sleep leads to a deterioration of performance, attention, motivation, mental concentration and intellectual capacity,1 which leads to an increased risk of error and injury. The potential consequences of such errors vary enormously; many will be inconsequential and easily compensated for without any adverse effects, whereas others can have devastating effects.A consensus statement endorsed by an international group of sleep experts states that “fatigue (sleepiness, tiredness) is the largest identifiable and preventable cause of accidents in transport operations (between 15% and 20% of all accidents), surpassing that of alcohol or drug related incidents in all modes of transportation”.2 One survey in England found that sleep-related incidents comprised 16–20% of all police-attended motor vehicle crashes.3 Occupational injuries are also associated with sleepiness, with observational studies having found that … ER -