The Shift Worker's Guide

Life's hard. Harder for those in these jobs you all do. What you see. What you hear. What you remember. What you can't forget. This repost from hits. This week, pretty hard & close to home. So yes look out for others but also look inward for yourself.

#911

THIS IS ACROSS THE BOARD....all services. all levels.

Hearing loss from above. Quiet quitting from below.

enforcement

This is troubling...

Firefighters’ gear may increase cancer risk, new studies show As cancer deaths among firefighters skyrocket, the country’s biggest firefighters union and the city fire chiefs issued a joint warning. The two groups warned that the gear that firefighters wear to protect themselves may be preloaded with cancer-causing chemicals, according to several studies.

Are you used to it?

“Even after years of night shift work, many people do not adjust” 

Imagine that. From non shift workers — “but you get used to it, right?” 

It’s kind of like a colonoscopy — you know what to expect — but, get used to it?

No, you get used to being tired — or living tired. Grinding. Pushing through. 

So there’s been a study, and it pretty much says, no, people don’t “get used to it”. 

“Analysis by the University of Warwick statisticians of interruptions to sleep and rhythmic variations in core body temperature showed that night shift workers had LESS THAN HALF the median regularity and quality of sleep of their day-shift colleagues. 48% of the night-shift workers had a disrupted circadian temperature rhythm.”

“Importantly, even workers who had been on night shifts for many years still showed these negative effects on circadian and sleep health. The more years they had been on night work, the more severe the circadian disruption, contradicting widespread assumptions about adaptation to night work.”

Full article on line — http://www.theshiftworkersguide.com 

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