Night shift schedules with fewer consecutive shifts, sufficient shift intervals, and shorter shift durations may reduce health and safety risks, including injuries and possibly breast cancer.

How to schedule night shift work in order to reduce health and safety risks

Fast-forward rotating shifts, timed bright light, and physical activity can positively impact chronic disease outcomes in night shift workers, but hypnotics show mixed results.

Health-related interventions among night shift workers: a critical review of the literature.

A healthy diet and improved dietary practices can reduce chronic disease risk in night shift workers, with education programs promoting lifestyle changes.

Healthy Diet And Reduction Of Chronic Disease Risks Of Night Shift Workers.

Night and shift work is associated with insomnia and fatigue, leading to reduced work capacity and increased accidents, but does not appear to cause premature ageing.

P309 Systematic review of the relationship between shift or night work as risk factors for health

Resetting the circadian clock using light and dark control can reduce circadian misalignment and improve health, performance, and safety in night-shift workers.

Shift work: health, performance and safety problems, traditional countermeasures, and innovative management strategies to reduce circadian misalignment

Night shift work is associated with an increased risk of moderate-severe asthma, with permanent night shift workers having a higher likelihood of having reduced lung function.

Night shift work is associated with an increased risk of asthma

Shift work and night work can lead to health issues like fatigue, increased risk of workplace accidents, and sleep disorders.

The impact of shift work and sleep deficiency on health

Shift and night work negatively impacts workers' health and well-being, leading to disruptions in circadian rhythms, decreased work performance, and deteriorating health, with specific effects on women's health and family roles.

The impact of shift and night work on health.

Long work hours and shift work significantly increase the risk of accidents, particularly in safety-critical industries like transport and healthcare.

Shift and night work and long working hours--a systematic review of safety implications.

Shift work is linked to acute sleep loss, accidents, type 2 diabetes, weight gain, and various chronic diseases, with potential shared common mechanisms.

Health consequences of shift work and insufficient sleep

Shift work disrupts circadian rhythms, potentially increasing the risk of certain cancers and promoting insufficient sleep, physical inactivity, and unhealthy diets.

Unhealthy shift work

Night work may be associated with higher risk of all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality, particularly due to cardiovascular disease.

Associations of shift work and night work with risk of all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality: a meta-analysis of cohort studies.

Night-shift work is not associated with an increased risk of breast, prostate, ovarian, pancreatic, colorectal, non-Hodgkin's lymph, and stomach cancers.

Association Between Night-Shift Work and Cancer Risk: Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Irregular shift work, including night shifts, is a modifiable risk factor for long sleep and increased fatigue, with a decrease in these risks when returning to day work.

Shift work with and without night work as a risk factor for fatigue and changes in sleep length: A cohort study with linkage to records on daily working hours

Shift work is associated with increased risk of poor mental health, particularly depressive symptoms, with women experiencing higher rates than men.

Shift Work and Poor Mental Health: A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies.

Shift work is associated with a more than twofold increased risk of developing metabolic syndrome compared to day workers in the healthcare sector.

Shift work and the risk for metabolic syndrome among healthcare workers: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Nighttime shift work in occupations outside the health sector increases the risk of depression, but the evidence is not strong enough to recommend against shift work for employees with depressive conditions.

Night Work and the Risk of Depression.

Shift work can lead to poor mental health outcomes, including depressed mood, anxiety, substance use, cognitive impairments, lower quality of life, and suicidal ideation.

Mental Health Consequences of Shift Work: An Updated Review

Long-term night shift work is associated with increased atrial fibrillation risk and increased risk of coronary heart disease, but not stroke or heart failure.

Long-term night shift work is associated with the risk of atrial fibrillation and coronary heart disease.

Night shift work increases the risk of sleep deprivation, family stressors, and mood changes, with rotating shifts being a major concern and fatigue-related illnesses being a secondary issue.

Night Shift Work and Its Health Effects on Nurses

How can I mitigate the health risks associated with night and shift work?

These studies suggest that mitigating health risks associated with night and shift work can be achieved through optimized shift schedules, light exposure management, physical activity, healthy dietary practices, and circadian clock resetting.