Shiftwork became common during the last few decades with the growing demands of human life. Despite the social inactivity and irregularity in habits, working in continuous irregular shifts causes serious health issues including sleep disorders, psychiatric disorders, cancer, and metabolic disorders. These health problems arise due to the disruption in circadian clock system, which is associated...

The authors developed and tested a process model of adaptation to shiftwork, which hypothesizes that various individual and situational variables influence the development of sleep and social and domestic disturbances. Both types of disturbances trigger various types of coping behavior, leading to several proximal outcomes. The end result is the development of chronic health problems in the for...

Shiftwork has been associated with elevated depressive symptoms; police officers frequently work shifts and may experience symptoms. This study assessed the association between symptoms shiftwork in a cohort from Buffalo, New York, USA using repeated cross-sectional design data collected 2004–2009 (n = 428) 2010–2014 261). Electronic payroll records were used to quantitatively classify on day, ...

Shiftwork may adversely impact an individual’s sleep-wake patterns and result in sleep loss (<6 h. following night shift), due to the circadian misalignment design of rosters shifts. Within a mining operation, this have significant consequences fatigue, including increased risk accidents chronic health conditions. This study aims (i) determine efficacy intervention that comprises educati...

This brief paper reviews the available published literature on shiftwork and safety that allows the relative risk of "accidents" or injuries associated with specific features of shift systems to be estimated. Three main trends in risk are discussed, namely that (i) risk is higher on the night shift, and to a lesser extent the afternoon shift, than on the morning shift, (ii) risk increases over ...