is rotation from day working to night working bad for your health?

Question

can your place of work make you do rotation ?. wot dus the law say

Answer 1

it upsets your body clock , concentration is lowered , you can suffer indigestion as meal times change , and constipation , sleep becomes a problem , but the law says nothing , except that shift changes should be in your contract

Answer 2

It is not illegal at least here in the US. certain occupations like over the road truck drivers can only drive so many consective hours before they have to rest, but most most jobs don't have restrictions. I think it is bad for your health. If nothing else it isn't too safe, especially if you are working in a job where the potential for injury exists. Many moons ago I had a job that rotated every two weeks between day shift, second shift and and midnights and that was pretty rough. Your body barely even had enough time to get adjusted before you switched again. Thankfully most of the time you would get a day's break in between those rotations but every once in a great while you would get stuck going from Second to Midnights or days to seconds straight through and that was brutal. I don't know of anyone who ever had to work a midnight and then a day, but that would have been even worse. Of course the positive side was that you got nice overtive pay for part of that shift.

Answer 3

Ongoing rotation in work days to nights at Certified Grocers, L.A. CA was cause for
a high divorce rate in warehousemen.
A former spouse tried sleeping when kids
were home active. My sleep was split to
see him up and off to work, then get kids
up for school 2 hrs after I was able to go
back to sleep. I went to work to Escape!
He made late noise on days off keeping
me & kids up to visit with him. We ate late
to not get him up too soon. If you can get to
management level, & no rotation, you just
might be able to beat statistics. Single will
not go well for long either on rotation.
We didn't get time to make use of benefits.

Answer 4

Basically, no. But it takes your body time to adapt. A friend of mine did permanent night shifts for 30 years. I did rotating shifts for 17 years, and it always took time to adapt from one shift, say earlies, to another, say nights. My sleep patterns suffered.
But if you are going to do regular night shifts, then your system will get used to it in a matter of days.
And of course, the pay is a lot better!

Answer 5

Don't think It's illegal to ask anyone to work any shift, be it night or day, after all, it's up to you, you don't have to do a particular job, as for "is it bad for your health" it takes a while to get used to, and when you eventually stop, it messes up your sleep rhythms for years!

Answer 6

It's not bad if you regulate it well, the worst thing is your bodyclock going haywire. Ask any nurse/fireman/policeman they will tell you. Provided you take a well earned rest whenever you can, you will survive.