If you were near a television, radio or just surfing the internet yesterday you would have definitely heard about the recent shark attack in South Africa on Australian surfing champion Mick Fanning. Like most of us around the world, as we watched the terrifying...
I’m sure we all agree that shift work can be physically, emotionally and mentally exhausting. We can definitely blame continual sleep deprivation as the reason for our zombie existence. But what about when you have to stand on your feet all day long? Because there...
As shift workers we certainly live at the mercy of our alarm clocks and it’s near impossible to ever feel “energized” when we’re running on 4-5 hours’ sleep or less, particularly if you’re a night shift worker. The actual process of...
Do you have days when your brain is foggy and you forget even the littlest of things? Well it’s not surprising as more and more research shows a direct link between sleep deprivation, cognitive impairment and memory loss. As so many of our occupations require...
As I sit at my desk pondering what I can write about in this week’s blog post, it occurred to me that I needed to ask you a question and that is: “How ‘adaptable’ are you to working shift work?” By this I mean when you signed up to be a...
