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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[415]- Your host on Radio 3AW - Talk Back Radio 28-09-2026

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 This morning I joined Tony McManus on Australia Overnight for a conversation that went somewhere I think we need to go more often. What is shift work like for t...

27 Syys 34min

[414] - Part 1 - The Hidden Cost of NOT Educating Your Shift Workers?

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 What does it cost an organisation to educate its shift-working workforce? That's an easy number to see. It appears on a proposal, gets allocated to a budget and...

27 Syys 18min

[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 Syys 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 Syys 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 Syys 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 Syys 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 Syys 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 Syys 22min