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A Healthy Shift | The Shift Work Podcast

It doesn't have to be this way.

Welcome to A Healthy Shift | The Shift Work Podcast, the podcast helping shift workers thrive while changing how organisations think about people working in 24/7 environments.

Hosted by Roger Sutherland, Australia's Night Shift & Sleep Specialist, this is where evidence meets lived experience.

After more than 40 years of working rotating shifts with Victoria Police, followed by years studying nutrition, circadian biology, chrononutrition, sleep, human performance and women's health, Roger is on a mission to challenge the belief that fatigue, poor sleep, burnout and declining health are simply part of working shifts.

Because they don't have to be.

Whether you're a nurse, paramedic, police officer, firefighter, doctor, aged care worker, manufacturing employee, FIFO worker, miner, pilot, flight attendant, truck driver, dispatcher, or anyone working outside the traditional 9-to-5, this podcast will give you practical, evidence-based strategies to help you sleep better, improve your energy, optimise your health and perform at your best.

If you're a leader, manager, People & Culture professional, WHS specialist, or responsible for leading a 24/7 workforce, you'll discover a different way of thinking about shift work—one that focuses on building shift work capability from within through education, leadership and practical systems that create healthier people, stronger teams and higher-performing organisations.

Each episode explores topics including:

• Shift work
• Night shift
• Sleep after night shift
• Circadian rhythm
• Fatigue management
• Shift worker health
• Nutrition for shift workers
• Chrononutrition
• Recovery and resilience
• Women's health and shift work
• Leadership in 24/7 organisations
• Human performance
• Workplace wellbeing
• Fatigue risk management
• Building healthier, safer and higher-performing workplaces

This isn't another podcast offering generic health tips.

It's a podcast about changing the future of shift work.

Because healthier people create stronger teams.

Stronger teams build better organisations.

And it all starts by understanding how to work with biology, not against it.

It doesn't have to be this way.

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A Healthy Shift | The Shift Work Podcast

[23] - Dr Olivia Walch - Your Circadian Rhythm and Shift Work, what does the current research say?

September 02, 2022 • Roger Sutherland | Shift Work Nutrition, Health & Wellbeing Coach • Season 1 • Episode 23

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Do you really struggle with sleep, meal timing and movement around shift work?

Dr Olivia Walch is a shift work researcher focusing on circadian rhythms and our sleep/wake cycle.

Dr Walch is currently developing a "Shift Work" app which I have beta testers out in the real shift working field to develop this app to reach it's full potential.

We discuss the app and how it works during the episode.

In this episode we discusss,

👉 What is a Circadian Rhythm?

👉🏻 How much of a strain is shift work on us biologically

👉🏼 Morning Larks and Night Owls

👉🏽 The importance of regular shift work patterns

👉🏾 The importance of blue light in the morning

👉🏿 The importance of blocking blue light at night

👉 How to go into night shift

👉🏻 How to come out of night shift

👉🏼 Why do we wake up in the middle of the night in the nights following nighshift.

👉🏽 The "Shift Work App"

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Shift work can be brutal, but it doesn't have to be. As a veteran 24/7 shift worker of almost four decades, I discuss evidence-based strategies in Nutrition, Health & Wellbeing, to help you live a happy and healthy life with more energy to thrive while performing shift work.

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Disclaimer: Roger Sutherland is not a doctor or a medical professional. Always consult a physician before implementing any strategies mentioned in this podcast. Use of this information is strictly at your own risk. Roger Sutherland will not assume any liability for direct or indirect losses or damages that may result from the use of the information contained in this podcast including but not limited to economic loss, injury, illness, or death.

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Roger Sutherland is Australia's Night Shift & Sleep Specialist and the founder of A Healthy Shift.

After more than 40 years working rotating shifts with Victoria Police, Roger now helps organisations reduce fatigue risk, improve staff wellbeing and build healthier, safer and higher-performing 24/7 workplaces through evidence-based education, circadian biology and the Shift Work Champions™ Framework.

Shift Work Champions™: https://join.ahealthyshift.com/shift-work-capability

Website: https://ahealthyshift.com.au

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Instagram: @a_healthy_shift

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Disclaimer: Roger Sutherland is not a doctor or a medical professional. Always consult a physician before implementing any strategies mentioned in this podcast. Use of this information is strictly at your own risk. Roger Sutherland will not assume any liability for direct or indirect losses or damages that may result from the use of the information contained in this podcast, including but not limited to economic loss, injury, illness, or death.

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