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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[259] - Your host on Radio 3AW - Australia Overnight - Talk Back Radio 12-06-2025

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 In this episode of A Healthy Shift, I take you through my journey—from being a 16-year-old Kiss fan camping outside Waverley Park to spending 40 years with Vict...

12 Juni 202541min

[258] - The Danger of Normalising Exhaustion

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 Burnout has silently become the baseline for too many shift workers—especially those in healthcare and emergency services. You're waking up exhausted, pushing t...

8 Juni 202512min

[257] - Jack Hallows - Coaches in Conversation - Life, Lifting & Looking After Yourself

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 In this candid episode, fitness coach Jack Hallows and I dive deep into the transformative power of resistance training—especially for those juggling the challe...

5 Juni 20251h 32min

[256] - Where Is My Shift Work Education and Support?

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 Feeling Burnt Out from Shift Work? You’re Not Alone — And It’s Not Your Fault. Most organisations expect 24/7 workers to navigate tough schedules without any gu...

1 Juni 202513min

[255] - How Shift Timing Impacts Your Health - What the Science Informs Us

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 Shift work disrupts our body's natural 24-hour clock (circadian rhythm), affecting metabolism, hormones, and how we process food, which increases risks of weigh...

29 Maj 202514min

[254] - How Your Indoor Lighting Is Making You Sick, Fat, and Tired

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 Blue light exposure at night disrupts our biology beyond sleep, causing serious health issues that shift workers need to understand and address to protect their...

25 Maj 202517min

[253] - Chloe Spring - It All Falls Apart If Management Don't Support It

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 What if we told you that the very people keeping our society running 24/7 — emergency workers, nurses, first responders, and other shift workers — are silently ...

22 Maj 20251h 7min

[252] - 8 Hours Pffft – A Better Way to Think About Sleep for Shift Workers

Text me what you thought of the show 😊 Are you tired of being told you need eight hours of sleep—when your shift schedule makes that nearly impossible? You're not alone, and more importantly, you're ...

18 Maj 202513min