Has a health study been done swing shifts in the work place? If so, what where the results.?

Question:

For 4 years, my co-workers and I have been required to work two weeks on day shift and two weeks on afternoons. A large number of us find our health is in question. We have tried many times to have one shift to work, either days or afternoons. We find that the first two days of change is very hard to handle, accidents always seem to occur, I often state that someone's going to hurt. The problem is, we are really feeling stressed. If anyone has study information, I would be grateful to have the information.

Answers:
Sorry I can't help with the study . But I know what you're going through. I had a swing shift like that for a while and it was rough. Only mine was 12 hour shifts, swinging from nights to days. The bad part was not getting any sleep. Just about the time you got used to it . it was time to swing again. I finally brought it up at one of our shift meetings, so they voted right then, and it was unanimous. No one wanted the swing shift.

Maybe you could get them to take a poll or vote like that, to show them no one wants it.

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I cannot give you sources, but yes there have been many studies showing that swing shift work is detrimental to the health of workers, mostly due to stress and the disruption of normal sleep patterns.
Perhaps there are some union or abor board related sources you could look into.

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