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Nightwork advice has "negligible" effect

An HSE-commissioned study has found that merely giving night shiftworkers written advice on coping with their lifestyle has little effect on their behaviour.1

The HSE has responded to the research by warning employers that they need to take more emphatic and precise action to educate shiftworkers on ways of improving their health.