Circadian lighting benefits

Researchers recently reported that “The use of circadian-informed lighting, where artificial lighting is synchronised to the natural biological rhythms or a person’s ‘body-clock’, significantly improves quality of sleep and work performance for night shift workers. . . . [study results] have produced two papers published in the prestigious Oxford University Press SLEEP journal, finding that strategic exposure to light accelerated body-clock adjustment and improved alertness and performance, as well as sleep after a night shift. . . . after circadian-informed lighting, participants achieved almost one hour more of sleep compared to the standard lighting condition as well as reporting lower levels of sleepiness during their shifts.”

“Light at the End of the Tunnel for Night Workers.” 2024. Press release, Flinders University, https://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2024/09/27/light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-for-night-workers/