What do you think of the new links between night shifts/long hours and certain Cancers and other health risks?

I actually agree with you, especially for people like Nurses/ Doctors/ Police, etc.

Yes like the idiot above me said people do choose that job, but these are essential jobs, and the people who do them already sacrifice a lot. The last thing we need when we need medical help is a Doc or Nurse who is burned out (I have seen it) or a policeman or firefighter on the ar*e end of a 12 hour night shift after having no days off for a week.

People in key positions such as the NHS or police should be looked after a lot more, it will benefit everyone in the end.

There's a blue ribbon campaign. Some people don't like it but some have embraced it. The seniors golf tour wears them. I volunteer for a 5K run on Father's day that is in support of prostate cancer research. Many, many women also volunteer and participate in the run. You see families running together as a team, sometimes literally carrying grandpa the whole way, mothers and fathers pushing baby carts...It is almost unbelievable to see how much people support it considering a few years ago men's issues were nobody's concern. But apparently we need to wait for 40 years until we are considered on the same level as far as "society" is concerned. Because it took 40 years of very hard work before anybody cared about breast cancer. So, I guess fair is fair.

Not getting enough sleep, stressful work environment and not eating properly all can cause your health to break down.

When I worked 3rd shift for an alarm company, I couldn't just go home and crawl into bed. I had young kids at the time so I know I wasn't getting proper rest.

It doesn't surprise me at all. And I do think that changing schedules to a 2 on 3 off type thing would be beneficial.

(Is it about time we review the hours that key workers such as Nurses/Doctors/Police etc work or at least give them better turn around times or more time off in liue?)

That would be a waste of taxpayers money, another bunch of bs that the taxpayers will have to pay for, like studying the sex life of a turtle, total waste.

Besides , some one has to do the job, so be it. When a person is hired, they asked for that job, and they need to carry out the duties of that job on the shift assigned to them. Best way to get fired is to start bitching about the job, work and hours that you were hired to do.

I agree we should be making changes to the shift patterns that many workers do and ensuring that their sleep is disrupted as little as possible.

A happy worker is more efficient and it means they will stay in the job longer meaning we don't have a high staff turn-around. Europe looks after it's workers much better than Britain.

I have no idea what to do, because night shifts would not exist unless we needed the workers to be around at night. Maybe we should limit night shifts to two-three years max, and then rotate these workers to day shifts.

In most jobs you can choose to do nights or eves, for some of the newer employees , nights initially are mandatory. I choose to work nights and have for twenty years, yes it may shorten my life but at least I am able to raise my kids and be there for them when it really counted. I do not have family around to help with babysitting etc so its up to me to make it work.

The human animal is not nocturnal.

Working nights is unnatural.

Doing too many things that are unnatural usually results in problems.

I guess it is predictable that we should find something derogatory about being forced to work crazy hours.

I worked graveyard at the post office.

We were breathing dust from all over the world.

We were sick most of the time. Aside from not getting much sleep. Especially when you have split days off.

Agree. I was a nurse on night shift and developed breast cancer. Many other nurses I know also have had breast cancer.