Abstract

FRANCA, Robinson Souza de et al. Night work and its effects on the health of safety workers. Mudanças [online]. 2019, vol.27, n.2, pp. 27-33. ISSN 0104-3269.

This empirical and qualitative study aimed to Know the effects of night work on the health of workers in the safety area, for this it verified the main impacts of the work on their health and conducted a survey of their reasons for choosing the profession. Twenty public and private security workers answered a semi-structured interviews about night work and the health impacts of professionals and sociodemographic questionnaire.Their answers were processed in the IRAMUTEQ software, whose descending hierarchical classification divided them into four classes, motivating and demotivating factors for night work,activities outside of Working hours and repercussions of work on personal life. The results indicate that complaints of physical and psychic tiredness, stress, sleep cycle dysregulation and impacts on social relationships are associated with the processes of physical and mental illness and suffering at night work.

Keywords : Night work; Health; Security Work.

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