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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[375] - I agree with you, your hormones are broken.

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 Shift work can make it feel like your body is working against you. You’re exhausted no matter how much you rest, your gut feels off, weight gain doesn’t make se...

10 Touko 14min

[374] - If you work nights - You'll learn from this

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 Night shift takes a real toll, but it doesn’t have to control your energy, sleep, or recovery. In this episode, I share why I’m excited to be part of the free G...

7 Touko 14min

[373] - The One and Done Solution for Shift Workers

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 Shift work gets brushed off as “part of the job”… but no one actually teaches you how to handle it. So most people end up guessing. Trying different foods, rout...

3 Touko 11min

[372] - Steve Jennings - Creatine, What is it with this hugely popular white powder

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 If you work nights and your brain feels like it’s running on fumes, the usual answer is more coffee, more energy drinks, and just pushing through. But that cycl...

30 Huhti 1h 25min

[371]- Your host on Radio 3AW - Talk Back Radio 17-04-2026

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 We get blunt about the real cost of shift work and why “just toughen up” is the wrong lens for fatigue, health, and safety. We also break down Mondayitis as a b...

27 Huhti 36min

[370] - It's not Jet Lag....It's this

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 Why do you feel better on holiday, even with jet lag? Because your habits naturally sync your body clock to the day. In this episode, we break down the “holiday...

26 Huhti 12min

[369] - You Might Look Fine…But This May Be Quietly Killing Shift Workers

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 You can look fit on the outside and still carry dangerous visceral fat—driving inflammation, insulin resistance, and long-term disease risk behind the scenes. I...

23 Huhti 18min

[368] - You’re Not Broken… You're Missing This Signal

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 Sunlight isn’t optional, it’s your body’s control system. For shift workers, light can either fix your sleep, energy, and mood… or completely wreck it. In this ...

19 Huhti 17min