Effets des horaires de travail posté et de nuit sur la qualité du sommeil, la vigilance et la qualité de vie : Étude interrégionale franco-allemande

The type of work organisation constitutes a disturbing factor on the adaptability, the sleep and life of the workers. The morning shift is particularly painful in French workers who start before 6am. Subjects complaining of bad quality of sleep or work-time sleepiness reported a poorer quality of life. Sleep and vigilance are more perturbed by rotating work than by night shift. Such results would have to be taken into consideration by European recommendations on shift work.