1st Edition

Making Shiftwork Tolerable

By Timothy H. Monk, Simon Folkard Copyright 1992
102 Pages
by CRC Press

94 Pages
by CRC Press

94 Pages
by CRC Press

This text guides the reader through the many forms of shiftwork, adopting a broad definition as being any regularly-taken employment outside the "day working window" 06.00 to 18.00. This excellent guide introduces the many and caried forms of shiftwork, adopting from the outset a broad definition of the term to embrace any regularly-taken employment outside the 'day-working window'. The authors,... Read more
Sleep and the biological clock; social challenges to the shift worker; stress and strain; health consequences; performance and safety consequences; inter-individual differences; coping strategies for the worker; strategies for the employer.

Biography

Timothy H. Monk has been engaged in researching the human biological clock and its influences on sleep and performance since 1974.  H is currently an Associate Professor pf Psychiatry and Director of the Human Chronobiology Program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Simon Folkard has been working in chronopsychology since 1971. He currently leads the Body Rhythm and Shiftwork Team at the Medical Research |Council's Applied Psychology Unit in Sheffield, UK.