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shift I YOU'RE "IN THE ARMY NOW"—you, along 
with all the men and women who must be on the 
job 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 
It's no push-button job, manning afternoon and 
night shifts. You can handle this man-size job if you 
know the score. ... if you know what it takes to 
keep you healthy. Your employer has new responsi- 
bilities to you, to the Nation, And you owe it to 
yourself, your fellow-workers, and your country to 
keep fit. 
Fatigue is the biggest threat to 
fitness—especially if you work the 
night shift. Fatigue puts the brakes on production, keeps you in low-gear. Just as bad — 
if you're tired, you're off guard, more apt to be 
careless. Your fatigue becomes a silent partner in 
Accidents, Incorporated. When you’re tired, 
you’re liable to get hurt worse and more often 
than when you’re alert. 
Slow Stealthy Silence is one of the most danger- 
ous things about fatigue. Your muscles won't ring 
a bell when they pass the safety limit of accurate 
control. Maybe your eyes get heavy, or your fingers 
begin to fumble, or your back begins to ache. . . . 
These are warning signals: Accidents ahead! 
Your First Job is to take care of yourself, to see 
that fatigue doesn't knock you out. Plenty of rest is 
what you need—especially if you're on the night 
shift. If you find it hard to sleep in the daytime 
you'll only wear yourself out if you prowl around 
the house. If you wake up and can't sleep, don't 
fret. Relax for the same length of time you meant 
to sleep, because the regularity of your rest is the 
next best thing to sleep. 
Tiredness has a way of piling up slowly for weeks, 
until one little thing will trip you up, throw you for a 
467998°—42 loss. If you’re on the night shift, you need all 
the sleep and rest you can get. 
Eating Breakfast at Suppertime while working 
nights can upset you, unless you eat at regular 
hours all the time. Besides regular mealtimes, you 
need the right food and enough of it. Three square 
meals a day, every day, so that each week includes 
plenty of fruits and cooked cereals, more green vege- 
tables, more meat, fish, cheese, eggs, butter, and 
milk—is a personal "victory program” for you. 
Take your time. Grabbing a bite on the run 
will give you indigestion. If you make a habit of 
hurrying or if you're one of those elevator eaters— 
sending down a new load of food every minute— 
your stomach has to work overtime. Eat right. 
Assembly Lines and Clothes Lines Get 
Tangled. More women with home duties are work- 
ing. Many of them work nights, then leave the 
factory to go home and start another job: cooking, 
cleaning house, washing clothes. It's common sense 
that you can't hold down two full-time jobs and do 
both right. If you are a married woman, especially 
a mother, who tries to take care of home duties and 
a job you'll quickly wear yourself out. Housework is Work, b 
and the families of working women should share 
the job. Little fussy tasks around the house can 
wait. The three R's for women who work should be 
Rest, Relaxation, Recreation. 
Swinging From Day Shift this week to night 
shift next, puts you on a pendulum schedule. But 
your body is not a clock. You can't change eating 
and sleeping habits that fast without paying the 
dangerous price of tiredness, lowered resistance, 
and time lost from work. 
Shifts should not be rotated more often than 
every two or three months. This gives you a 
chance to “roll with the punch”-—to get used 
to new hours and new conditions. Rest Pauses of 5 to 15 minutes, at the one- 
quarter and again at the three-quarter mark of 
each shift, helps to "keep 'em rolling." Noisy ma- 
chinery quiet—milk and sandwiches handy—every- 
body feels a hundred percent better. And people 
who feel better, work better. All work and no pause 
keeps production in low gear. Besides the daily 
rest pause, each worker needs 1 day off each week, 
and at least 1 week off each year. 
Good Lighting. Poor light on the job makes 
dark corners, and dark corners start accidents. 
Too much light, and in the wrong place, throws a 
glare as bad for a man as staring into the sun. 
Small bulbs can be replaced by bigger ones; big 
lights, in the wrong place, can be moved or shaded. 
Safeguard eyesight with the proper light. Graveyard Shift—that's what they used to call 
the night shift. But we know that working nights 
never hurt a healthy man unless he and his em- 
ployer neglected to recognize the hazards of night 
work and didn't prevent them. 
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Keep You •» H,gh Workers' Health Series 
No. 1. But Flu Is Tougher. 
No. 2. Leonard's Appendix—And How It Burst. 
No. 3. KO by CO Gas. 
No. 4. Clara Gives Benzol the Run Around. 
No. 5. Trouble in the Midriff. 
No. 6. Bill Gets the Works. 
No. 7. Night Shift. 
No. 8. Save Your Skin. 
No. 9. Willie's Victory Torch. 
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