Grant, Leilah K.
Ftouni, Suzanne
Nijagal, Brunda
De Souza, David P.
Tull, Dedreia
McConville, Malcolm J.
Rajaratnam, Shantha M. W.
Lockley, Steven W.
Anderson, Clare
Funding for this research was provided by:
CRC for Alertness, Safety and Productivity
Article History
Received: 18 July 2018
Accepted: 7 February 2019
First Online: 14 March 2019
Competing Interests
: Leilah K. Grant<sub>,</sub> Suzanne Ftouni, Brunda Nijagal, David P. De Souza, Dedreia Tull, Malcolm J. McConville, Shantha M. W. Rajaratnam, Steven W. Lockley, Clare Anderson, L.K.G. received a top up Scholarship from the Cooperative Research Centre for Alertness Safety and Productivity and was supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship. S.F. served as a Project Leader for the Cooperative Research Centre for Alertness, Safety and Productivity. B.N., D.P.D. and D.T. report no financial conflicts of interest in relation to this work. M.J.M. is an NHMRC Principle Research Fellow. S.M.W.R. reports that he has served as a consultant through his institution to Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Philips Respironics, EdanSafe, The Australian Workers’ Union, National Transport Commission, Transport Accident Commission, New South Wales Department of Education and Communities, and has through his institution received research grants and/or unrestricted educational grants from Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Shell, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Rio Tinto, Seeing Machines, Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Philips Lighting, Philips Respironics, Cephalon, and ResMed Foundation, and reimbursements for conference travel expenses from Vanda Pharmaceuticals. His institution has received equipment donations or other support from Optalert™, Compumedics, and Tyco Healthcare. He has served as an expert witness and/or consultant to shift work organizations. SMWR also serves as a Program Leader in the Cooperative Research Centre for Alertness, Safety and Productivity. S.W.L. has no conflicts of interests related to the research or results reported in this paper. He is a Program Leader for the Cooperative Research Centre for Alertness Safety and Productivity. In the interests of full disclosure, commercial interests from the last 3 years (2015–2018) are listed below. S.W.L. has received consulting fees from the Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta Hawks, Consumer Sleep Solutions, Noble Insights, OpTerra Energy Services Inc., Pegasus Capital Advisors LP, Serrado Capital, Slingshot Insights and Team C Racing and has current consulting contracts with Akili Interactive, Apex 2100 Ltd, Delos Living LLC, Headwaters Inc., Hintsa Performance AG, Light Cognitive, Lighting Science Group Corporation, Mental Workout, PlanLED, Six Senses, and Wyle Integrated Science and Engineering. SWL has received unrestricted equipment gifts from Biological Illuminations LLC, Bionetics Corporation and F.LUX Software LLC; has equity in iSLEEP, Pty; advance author payment and/or royalties from Oxford University Press; honoraria plus travel, accommodation and/or meals for invited seminars, conference presentations or teaching from BHP Billiton, Estee Lauder, Informa Exhibitions (USGBC), and Teague; travel, accommodation and/or meals only (no honoraria) for invited seminars, conference presentations or teaching from Lightfair, U.S.G.B.C., D.I.N. and S.L.T.B.R. and S.W.L. has completed investigator-initiated research grants from Biological Illumination LLC and has an ongoing investigator initiated grant from F. Lux Software LLC; S.W.L. holds a process patent for ‘Systems and methods for determining and/or controlling sleep quality’, which is assigned to the Brigham and Women’s Hospital per Hospital policy. S.W.L. has also served as a paid expert on behalf of several public bodies on arbitrations related to work hours and legal proceedings related to light and health. C.A. has received a research award/prize from Sanofi-Aventis; contract research support from VicRoads, Rio Tinto Coal Australia, National Transport Commission, Tontine/Pacific Brands and VicRoads; and lecturing fees from Brown Medical School/Rhode Island Hospital, Ausmed, Healthmed and TEVA Pharmaceuticals; and reimbursements for conference travel expenses from Philips Healthcare. In addition, she has served as a consultant through her institution to the Rail, Bus and Tram Union, the Transport Accident Commission (TAC) and the National Transportation Committee (NTC). She has also served as an expert witness and/or consultant in relation to fatigue and drowsy driving. C.A. is a Theme Leader in the Cooperative Research Centre for Alertness, Safety and Productivity.