This survey discusses the impacts of shift work towards shop floor workers' safety and health in a manufacturing company. This study had used the survey methodology to study the shop floor workers' perception of shift work towards their safety and health. The survey questionnaires were distributed to 200 shift workers in the production department. The survey questionnaire covered in detail the shift workers' background, health and safety effects and personal factors towards safety and health. The survey was conducted in a company, which is practising a rotating 3-shift, 8-hour per shift system. In order to identify the most dominant factor that influence safety and health among shop floor workers, the survey results were analyzed using the descriptive and correlation technique. Based on the findings obtained from the survey, the authors had suggested the case study company to be more sensitive on the effects of shift working towards shop-floor workers' safety and health.
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