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October 10, 2025Open Access

Adopting A Total Worker Health® Perspective to Examine Shiftwork in Firefighters

KCKatia Maciel Costa-BlackOregon Health & Science University NBNick BowlesUniversity of Gloucestershire

Key Points

Firefighter shiftwork significantly disrupts sleep, leading to increased risks of cardiovascular disease and mental health issues.
Adopting new work schedules enhances firefighters' health, with 48/96 and 24/72/48/72 schedules showing promise.
This observational analysis is part of the Total Worker Health initiative, aiming to improve firefighter safety and wellness.
Findings may guide scheduling practices but require further validation through systematic investigation.

Abstract

Introduction: Firefighters often face disrupted sleep, increasing their risk of accidents, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and mental health issues. They also struggle to balance family and social obligations with the need for sleep during days off. To address this conflict, many U.S. firefighter departments have shifted from a 24/48 schedule to schedules that provide additional consecutive days off-shift such as the 48/96 or the 24/72/48/72 schedules. To guide decisions around work schedules while prioritizing firefighter health, well-being, and safety, we aimed to systematically assess the impact of work schedules on these outcomes and develop effective methods for widely disseminating our findings via the SWIFT (Shift work in firefighters) study, a Total Worker Health (TWH) initiative.

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Costa-Black et al. (Wed,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e861857ef2f04ca37e395b https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0045-1812759

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