{"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE260100081"},"data":{"type":"grant-details","id":"DE260100081","attributes":{"code":"DE260100081","administering-organisation":"Central Queensland University","announcement-administering-organisation":"Central Queensland University","scheme-name":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","grant-status":"Active","funding-commencement-year":2026,"years-funded":3,"project-start-date":"2026-12-31","anticipated-end-date":"2029-12-30","grant-summary":"Understanding the impact of on-call work on sleep, fatigue, and safety. On-call workers respond to emergencies, maintain critical infrastructure, and keep vital operations running in sectors such as utilities, healthcare, and aviation. But on-call work comes at a cost — the annual financial impact of fatigue-related injuries and fatalities in Australian on-call workers is >$2.25 billion. Surprisingly, we have minimal evidence about how the overnight wakings that characterise most on-call schedules impact sleep, fatigue, and safety. This project aims to investigate the acute effects of repeated overnight calls on sleep, fatigue, and safety risk. Findings will advance knowledge on the effects of on-call work, strengthen fatigue management guidance materials, and improve safety for on-call workers and communities.","funding-current":534234.00,"funding-at-announcement":529993,"investigators-current":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Madeline","familyName":"Sprajcer","roleName":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","roleCode":"DECRA","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0002-4966-871X "}],"investigators-at-announcement":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Madeline","familyName":"Sprajcer","roleName":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","roleCode":"DECRA","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0002-4966-871X "}],"organisations-current":[{"organisationName":"Central Queensland University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"QLD"}],"organisations-at-announcement":[{"organisationName":"Central Queensland University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"QLD"}],"field-of-research":[{"isPrimary":false,"code":"350505","name":"Occupational and Workplace Health and Safety","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"520202","name":"Behavioural Neuroscience","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":true,"code":"5204","name":"Cognitive and Computational Psychology","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"520406","name":"Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance","type":"FOR20"}],"socio-economic-objective":[{"code":"200507","name":"Occupational Health","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"230506","name":"Workplace Safety","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"280121","name":"Expanding Knowledge In Psychology","type":"SEO20"}],"international-collaboration":[],"lief-register":[],"achievement-summary":null,"national-interest-test-statement":"Up to 45% of employed Australians undertake at least some on-call work. They respond to emergencies (e.g., firefighters, doctors), perform critical maintenance (e.g., information technology or utilities workers), get called to attend work with little notice (e.g., social workers, tradespeople), and provide essential services (e.g., marine pilots, train drivers). On-call work is common in safety-critical industries, where on-call periods typically occur overnight to provide coverage if an incident occurs. However, little is known about how overnight calls impact sleep, fatigue, and safety risk. As a result, guidelines on how fatigue should be managed in on-call workers are not evidence-based, with many workplaces assuming that sleep obtained while on-call (despite being broken) has the same restorative value as unbroken sleep. This project aims to advance our scientific understanding of how receiving overnight calls impacts sleep, fatigue, and safety risk in on-call workers. It will provide evidence to underpin regulatory guidance, resulting in fatigue management policy improvements in organisations that use on-call work. For example, organisations will know how long workers can spend on-call before safety risk is elevated. Improved fatigue management has the potential to significantly reduce the $2.25 billion annual cost of workplace incidents, injuries, and fatalities in on-call workers, providing critical safety benefits for workers and their communities."}}}