Managing a Shift Work Lifestyle
It is a staggering fact that even after 20 years on the job, most shift workers do not know how to adjust their lifestyle to minimise the negative effects of working around the clock. As a result, their job performance, safety, health and family life suffers, and your profits and productivity fall.
Therefore, training in these areas can be a powerful tool for improving your employees’ physical and psychological well being, thereby increasing morale and effectiveness. In fact, research reports have found that turnover and absenteeism rates are higher in facilities that do not provide some type of shift work lifestyle training.
If this is your situation:
Your shift workers show the following signs and symptoms:
- Fatigue and irritability
- Low morale and negative attitudes
- Nodding off on the job
- Falling asleep while commuting
- High absenteeism and turnover
- Excessive coffee consumption
- Weight, diet and health problems
- Unexplained accidents/safety problems
- Poor performance
This is how CIRCADIAN AUSTRALIA can help you:
These problems are avoidable, but only when the people working the shifts have a chance to learn how to better cope with the special demands of their work schedule. Working closely with researchers and experienced shift workers, CIRCADIAN has developed the Managing a Shift Work Lifestyle training program to provide practical solutions for easing the adjustment and day-to-day difficulties associated with shift work lifestyles.
The Managing a Shift Work Lifestyle program provides this critical information in the form of practical, ready-to-use advice and examples. This on-site training program provides critical information to help employees deal with the challenges of working shift work, especially the night shift. Training includes information on fatigue, alertness, sleep, nutrition, health, family/social life and more.