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- Understanding your 'biological clock' helps you cope with shiftwork.
- Effects of shiftwork and strategies for the shiftworker to cope.
- The International Association for Time-Use Research aims to be a scientific organization that fosters exchange of ideas dealing with time use. Various links to national and international research including one on the "24 hour society."
- Optimizing the 24/7 workforce via schueduling and training. Shift work schedules and lifestyle education to minimize risk and decrease costs.
- Shiftwork safety, health and scheduling resources. Center for world-wide research.
- Roster design specialists for day work and shiftwork operations offering cost savings, plus health and lifestyle benefits for employees.
- Circadian Lighting Systems utilize biological principles developed at Harvard University to provide physiological adaptation to night work.
- A forum for insomniacs, shift workers, and other night owls. It includes news, information, and entertainment presented by and for night people.
- COUNCIL DIRECTIVE No 93/104/EC of 23 November 1993 concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time
- A conference cosponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy November 20-21, 1997. Presentation write-ups and useful network links.
- Circadian Technologies WEB publications' site provides salient information for night-shift workers and managers.
- Articles, online forums, and other resources for people working shiftwork.
- What is shift lag, who gets shift lag, and how to reduce it.
- UK based company specializing in shift work schedules and shiftworker lifestyle training. Minimising risk, and reducing costs.
- The sleep mask used by NIH researchers in light deprivation studies. Aids shift workers in daytime sleep; relieves migraine pain; offers peaceful sleep for travelers
- Online resource for shiftworkers and their managers. Provide training solutions for manufacturing, hospitals, casinos and airports, reducing costs and fatigue and improving safety and quality of life.

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