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What’s really scary is that the jobs which are truly life-and-death, in which you hold the lives of people (often many people) in your hands, are all shift-work.
Doctors & nurses, police, firefighters, paramedics, pilots, railway engineers, bus drivers—they all work day shifts for a while, then switch to night shifts. Add to that the fact that the emergency services have a higher percentage of people with ADHD, and you realize why shift work increases the risk of mistakes.
If workers were assigned permanently to either the day or the night shift, it would reduce the danger. You’ll never remove it completely, because humans were meant to sleep at night, but we now live in a 24-hour world.
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