Long-term fixed night shift workers Employers need to provide special health care

Health 8:34am, 9 September 2025 90

The Department of Health has conducted a strong health inspection plan for the first time for a long-term night work. The Department of Health stated that according to the research of the Department's Institute of Health and Professional Safety and Hygiene, long-term night work may cause physiological rhythm disorders, sleep disorders, aggravated cardiovascular and limb disease impacts, etc. It is hoped to collect local sexual data through health inspections and serve as a reference for related work disease prevention policies.

In order to facilitate employers to check the implementation details, the Department of Health and Safety has launched the relevant QA online.

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The Department of Operations stated that this plan only needs to work late at night from 22am to 6am the next day, so it is not suitable for all wheel shifts, such as supermarkets who have fixed wheel shifts in the afternoon, or wheel shifts in the evening, etc.

Since scheduling is generally directed and managed by the employer, whether the employed work has achieved "long-term night work" is determined by the employer.

As of the current and tomorrow years of trial, employers must check whether the work model of the work last year has reached the long-term night work standard. If the worker only got to work in August last year, is it a specific area? The Ministry of Health said that if he got to work in August last year, although he would not have achieved the condition of working nights of more than six months, if his night shifts amounted to 700 hours by the end of last year, he would be a special health inspection target.

Regarding this health examination, the Department of Health and Health, the Department of Health, said that considering that night work workers may cause physical and mental problems, in addition to general health examinations, sleep, fatigue, digestion, and neural system inspections are also added. However, many of the new parts are questionnaire scales, and instrument inspections only increase cardiac image items. If the laborer needs to handle general health examinations that year, the overlapping items can be exempted and the fees will not increase too much.

However, if the worker has completed the general health examination last year, the work model last year has reached the long-term night work standard, and special health examinations will still be conducted this year. The Ministry of Operations stated that 146 medical institutions across the country have been designated to perform special medical examinations, and the medical institutions shall be responsible for the registration of inspection results, and employers shall not report them again.