Sleep, work, health and safety, Part 2

Part 2: occupational health management of nightshift work

Summary:

In the concluding article on sleep, work and health, Pierluigi Cocco considers the importance of pre-placement health assessments and regular health surveillance for night workers, assessing daytime sleepiness and occupational health interventions to improve sleep quality among workers in general.

Part one of this two-part feature considered the impact of sleep loss and poor sleep quality on work and health. This concluding part considers the importance of health assessments and health surveillance of night workers, strategies to mitigate the impact of nightshift work on sleep, and interventions to improve sleep quality for all workers…

 

Pierluigi Cocco is an occupational physician and honorary professor of occupational medicine at the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Manchester

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Occupational Health at Work December/January 2025/2026 (vol. 22/4) pp20-27

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