A Healthy Shift

About A Healthy Shift

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.

Publisher

Roger Sutherland | Founder, A Healthy Shift | Night Shift & Sleep Specialist | Shift Work Educator

Category

education · education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Apr 2022

Latest episode

11 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

415 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Oct 2026

   [418] - Part 4 - What Happens After the Shift Work Seminar?

   Text me what you thought of the show 😊 Bringing someone into your organisation to educate your shift-working workforce can be incredibly valuable. I’ve seen firsthand what happens when people finally understand why they’re struggling with sleep, fatigue, light exposure, caffeine, eating overnight and recovery around their roster. But there’s another question I think organisations need to ask: What happens after the seminar? In this episode, I explore the difference between creating awareness ...

2. 

   8 Oct 2026

   [417] - Part 3 - Who Actually Owns Shift Worker Health in Your Organisation?

   Text me what you thought of the show 😊 Who actually owns shift worker health inside a 24/7 organisation? Is it Health and Wellbeing? Safety? HR or People and Culture? Operations? Leadership? Or does responsibility ultimately sit with the individual shift worker? In this episode, I explore why I think that question is so important — and why the answer often isn’t as clear as organisations might expect. Shift work doesn’t fit neatly into one department. Fatigue might become a safety issue. Unpl...

3. 

   1 Oct 2026

   [416] - Part 2 - You Gave Them a Roster, But Did You Teach Them How to Work It?

   Text me what you thought of the show 😊 We’re very good at teaching people how to do their job. But are we teaching them how to manage their life around when we’re asking them to do that job? In this episode, I explore what I believe is one of the biggest capability gaps inside 24/7 organisations: we give people a roster, train them in policies, procedures, systems and safety, and then largely leave them to work out the biological demands of shift work for themselves. I spent more than 40 year...

Who has been a guest on A Healthy Shift

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• Steve Jennings
• Tom Coleman
• Dr Emily Carter
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Reach and audience

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YouTube views

1,168

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

14 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

258 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 82 / 100

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Quality

98

Social presence

0

YouTube

74

Engagement

92

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