About this session
Shift work can make many ordinary heart-health habits harder to maintain. Employees may need to sleep against their natural body clock, eat at unusual times, rely more heavily on caffeine, recover between changing schedules and make safety-critical decisions while tired.
Over time, repeated sleep disruption and circadian misalignment may affect blood pressure, blood-sugar regulation, stress responses and other cardiovascular risk factors.
Shift workers may also have fewer consistent opportunities for movement, balanced meals, healthcare appointments and full recovery between working periods.
This session begins with the practical realities of shift work. Participants build realistic plans for sleep, caffeine, food, movement and recovery around the shifts they actually work.
They then explore how fatigue and irregular schedules can affect heart health, identify personal warning signs and distinguish individual habits from workplace conditions that require wider action.
What your people take away
- Build realistic sleep and recovery plans around different shift patterns
- Use caffeine, food, hydration, movement and light more deliberately
- Recognize how fatigue and circadian disruption may affect cardiovascular health
- Reduce risk during commutes, demanding tasks and the lowest-alertness periods
- Identify when persistent symptoms or unsafe fatigue require workplace or clinical support
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30 minutes
30 Minutes — Key Points: Protect Your Heart and Energy Across the ShiftA focused 30-minute session on three key points from Protect Your Heart and Energy Across the Shift: build a sleep plan around the shift you actually work, use caffeine without carrying it into the next sleep and create a shift-friendly food and hydration plan.
- Build a sleep plan around the shift you actually work
- Use caffeine without carrying it into the next sleep
- Create a shift-friendly food and hydration plan
Covers 3 of 4 points in Protect Your Heart and Energy Across the Shift.
60 minutes
60 Minutes — Module 1: Protect Your Heart and Energy Across the ShiftThe 60-minute session focuses on immediate practical application. Participants plan sleep and recovery around their current schedule, improve caffeine and meal timing, protect movement and identify safer responses to severe tiredness.
- Module 1: Protect Your Heart and Energy Across the Shift
- Live Q&A
Covers 1 of 3 parts: Protect Your Heart and Energy Across the Shift.
90 minutes
90 Minutes — Modules 1 and 2: Understand and Reduce Shift-Related StrainThe 90-minute session adds deeper pattern mapping. Participants examine how changing schedules affect blood pressure, stress, eating, activity and recovery, then identify which parts of their routine offer the greatest opportunity for improvement.
- Module 1: Protect Your Heart and Energy Across the Shift
- Module 2: Understand Where Shift Work Places Pressure on Heart Health
- Live Q&A
Covers 2 of 3 parts: Protect Your Heart and Energy Across the Shift and Understand Where Shift Work Places Pressure on Heart Health.
3 hours
Covers all 3 parts.
Full day
Full Day — Modules 1, 2 and 3: Build a Sustainable Shift-Work and Heart-Health StrategyThe full-day session combines practical planning, accessible cardiovascular science and workplace application. Participants develop flexible strategies for rotating schedules, identify organizational fatigue risks and prepare for appropriate health checks or professional support.
- Module 1: Protect Your Heart and Energy Across the Shift
- Module 2: Understand Where Shift Work Places Pressure on Heart Health
- Module 3: Make Shift Work Safer and More Sustainable
- Live Q&A
Covers all 3 parts, in more depth, with more time to practice.
What’s covered
Protect Your Heart and Energy Across the Shift
Every length- Build a sleep plan around the shift you actually workParticipants map their shift, commute, home responsibilities and realistic sleep opportunity, then identify a main sleep period and possible recovery window.
- Use caffeine without carrying it into the next sleepParticipants review when and why they use coffee, tea, energy drinks or other caffeine sources during shifts.
- Create a shift-friendly food and hydration planParticipants build a simple plan for meals, snacks and drinks across the shift, including what to do when appetite, access or break timing is unpredictable.
- Keep movement in the working dayParticipants identify realistic opportunities for movement during or around the shift, including walking, mobility, active breaks or short bouts of exercise.
Understand Where Shift Work Places Pressure on Heart Health
90 minutes and longer- Map your personal shift-work patternParticipants review their schedule, sleep, meals, caffeine, movement, stress and energy across several working days.
- Understand the body-clock challengeThe facilitator explains how shift work can place sleep, eating, activity and alertness at times that conflict with the body's internal rhythms.
- Connect fatigue with blood pressure and metabolic healthParticipants explore how repeated short or disrupted sleep may influence stress responses, blood-pressure regulation, appetite and blood-sugar control.
- Notice when quick fixes become the routineParticipants examine repeated reliance on caffeine, convenience foods, alcohol, nicotine or complete inactivity to manage demanding schedules.
Make Shift Work Safer and More Sustainable
3 hours and longer- Prepare for the lowest-alertness periodParticipants identify when sleepiness is usually strongest and which tasks, decisions or journeys occur during that period.
- Plan the transition between shift typesParticipants create practical strategies for moving between nights, early starts, late shifts and rest days.
- Identify what the workplace needs to addressParticipants examine factors such as excessive consecutive shifts, short recovery windows, missed breaks, unpredictable schedules and expectations after night work.
- Know when fatigue or heart symptoms need escalationParticipants learn to recognize persistent severe sleepiness, repeated near misses, ongoing difficulty recovering, high blood-pressure readings, chest discomfort, unusual breathlessness, palpitations or other concerning symptoms as reasons to seek appropriate support.
Who it’s for
- Shift workers managing early, late, rotating or night schedules
- Employees in safety-critical roles where fatigue affects performance and heart health
- Teams needing practical sleep, recovery and cardiovascular strategies for irregular hours
- Workplace wellbeing programs focused on shift work, fatigue and preventive heart health
- Anyone wanting to distinguish personal habit changes from workplace or clinical support
How booking works
- Book online. Create a free Workbliss profile, then pay with session credits, by card or by invoice.
- Pick a date. Choose a date at least 14 days ahead, or book now and set the date later. Need it sooner? Email hello@workbliss.ai and we’ll see what we can do.
- Choose your expert. Within 3 working days, we send you profiles of the experts available for your date.
- We deliver it. Your expert is briefed on your people and goals, then runs the session live online or at your site.
Questions about Shift Work, Fatigue and Heart Health
How long is Shift Work, Fatigue and Heart Health?
Shift Work, Fatigue and Heart Health runs as 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 90 minutes, 3 hours or full day. You choose the length when you book. A 30-minute session covers three key points from Protect Your Heart and Energy Across the Shift: build a sleep plan around the shift you actually work, use caffeine without carrying it into the next sleep and create a shift-friendly food and hydration plan. A 60-minute session covers Protect Your Heart and Energy Across the Shift in full, with a live Q&A. A 90-minute session adds Understand Where Shift Work Places Pressure on Heart Health. A 3-hour session adds Make Shift Work Safer and More Sustainable. A full-day session covers everything, in more depth, with more time to practice.
Can Shift Work, Fatigue and Heart Health be delivered online or in person?
Yes, both. It runs live online, so every office can join at the same time, or in person at your site, in any country.
How do we book Shift Work, Fatigue and Heart Health?
Create a free Workbliss profile with your work email, then open Shift Work, Fatigue and Heart Health to see the price for each length and book it. You can pay with session credits, by card or by invoice, and choose a date at least 14 days ahead, or set it later. Need it sooner? Email hello@workbliss.ai and we’ll see what we can do.
Who leads the session?
A vetted Workbliss expert, briefed on your people, culture and goals before the session. After you book, we send you profiles of the experts available for your date within 3 working days, so you can choose who leads it.
Can it be tailored to our company?
Yes. Every session is shaped around your goals, your people and the benefits you already offer, and delivered by experts in your people’s languages.