Shift Work

• Health: Conditions and Diseases: Sleep Disorders: Biological Rhythms  (8)

Circadian Technologies - Optimizing the 24/7 workforce via schueduling and training. Shift work schedules and lifestyle education to minimize risk and decrease costs.

Coping with Shiftwork - Understanding your 'biological clock' helps you cope with shiftwork.

IDS - European Working Time Directive - Council Directive No. 93/104/EC of 23 November 1993 concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time

International Association for Time Use Research - The International Association for Time-Use Research aims to be a scientific organization that fosters exchange of ideas dealing with time use. Various links to national and international research including one on the "24 hour society."

Night Owl Network - Articles, online forums, and other resources for people working shiftwork.

Night Writer Online Magazine - A forum for insomniacs, shift workers, and other night owls. It includes news, information, and entertainment presented by and for night people.

Shift Work and Shift Lag - What is shift lag, who gets shift lag, and how to reduce it.

Shiftwork Services New Zealand - Online resource for shiftworkers and their managers. Provide training solutions for manufacturing, hospitals, casinos and airports, reducing costs and fatigue and improving safety and quality of life.

Shiftwork Solutions Australia - Roster design specialists for day work and shiftwork operations offering cost savings, plus health and lifestyle benefits for employees.

Shiftworker Online - Effects of shiftwork and strategies for the shiftworker to cope.

Time-Use Conference - A conference cosponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy November 20-21, 1997. Presentation write-ups and useful network links.

Working Nights - Circadian Technologies WEB publications' site provides salient information for night-shift workers and managers.