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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Episoder(410)

[413] - Can You Actually Adapt to Night Shift?

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 Can You Actually Adapt to Night Shift? “I’ve been doing night shift for years. My body is used to it.” But does feeling comfortable working nights mean your bio...

24 Sep 12min

[412] - The First Day Off After Night Shift — What Should You Actually Do

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 The First Day Off After Night Shift — What Should You Actually Do? You’ve finished your final night shift and now you need to transition back to days. So, what’...

20 Sep 14min

[411] - Nobody Taught You How to Work Shifts — And Thats the Problem

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 Nobody Taught You How to Work Shifts — And That’s the Problem Shift workers are trained to do their jobs, but how many are actually taught how to work shifts? I...

17 Sep 19min

[410] - Eating Jet Lag: What Changing Meal Times Could Be Doing to Your Health

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 Night shift doesn’t only disrupt when you sleep. It can completely change when you eat. One day you’re eating dinner at six in the evening. The next, you’re hav...

13 Sep 28min

[409] - Is Night Shift Bad for Your Health?

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 Is night shift bad for your health? The research linking night shift work with circadian disruption, poor sleep, metabolic dysfunction and increased long-term h...

10 Sep 20min

[408] - You Don't Have to Feel Stressed to Be Stressed

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 What if some of the biggest stressors in your life don’t actually feel like stress? For shift workers, stress isn’t only a difficult boss, a busy shift, financi...

6 Sep 22min

[407] - Stop Replacing Shift Workers. Start Asking Why They're Leaving.

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 Stop Replacing Shift Workers. Start Asking Why They're Leaving. If your organisation is constantly recruiting shift workers to replace the people who are leavin...

3 Sep 16min

[406]- Your host on Radio 3AW (w/special guest Antony - Runway Pickleball) - Talk Back Radio 31-08-2026

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 I join Tony McManus on 3AW’s Australia Overnight for a lively conversation about the “pub test,” government spending, Victoria’s debt and the pressure facing po...

30 Aug 40min