PETITION PREAMBLE (FOR AUSTRALIAN OR GLOBAL PETITIONS)
Night-shift workers sustain essential industries while the rest of society sleeps. They operate under extreme physiological and psychological strain caused by fatigue, circadian disruption, heat accumulation, reduced immune function, impaired reaction time, stress overload, and long-term health risks that are consistently underestimated or ignored.
Traditional break rooms do not restore the human body. They are not designed to reduce cortisol, rebalance circadian rhythms, decompress the nervous system, or correct heat stress. As a result, preventable fatigue-related harm continues to threaten worker safety, public safety, and long-term health outcomes.
Safe Health Zones, also known as SHZ, provide a modern, science-aligned solution. SHZ offer supervised, minimal-clothing or naturist-friendly recovery environments enabling natural cooling, grounding, reduced sensory load, improved airflow, low-light conditions, and nervous-system restoration. These spaces reduce accidents, improve alertness, support mental health, and protect workers who experience disproportionate fatigue.
Employers rely on night-shift workers for their operations.
Councils often invite these employers into their Local Government Area.
Both therefore share a responsibility and a duty of care to ensure real protection for the workers who keep these systems alive.
Safe Health Zones are not luxuries. They are overdue public health infrastructure.
(More information on Safe Health Zones, SHZ, is available at:
www.naturismre.com/shz-overview
Below are the text of theAustralian & the Global Petition for quick reference:
Title:
Protect Night-Shift Workers: Implement Safe Health Zones (SHZ) in Workplaces Across Australia
Subtitle:
A national petition calling on governments, councils, and employers to protect night-shift and high-fatigue workers through Safe Health Zones.
Petition Text (Australia)
Night-shift workers keep Australia running while the rest of the country sleeps.
They are consistently exposed to preventable harm.
Fatigue, circadian disruption, heat stress, and psychological overload contribute to reduced safety, higher accident rates, chronic illness, mental instability, and impaired performance.
Australia depends on night-shift workers in logistics, transport, healthcare, emergency services, warehouses, and essential industries.
Break rooms with fluorescent lights, synthetic uniforms, and artificial temperatures do not restore the human body.
NaturismRE proposes Safe Health Zones, known as SHZ.
These are specialised recovery spaces using nature-aligned methods such as:
• minimal clothing for natural cooling
• grounding surfaces
• low-light recovery settings
• fresh airflow and passive cooling
• infrared warmth or passive heating
• noise reduction
• calming natural textures
• responsible supervision and behavioural rules
SHZ restore the nervous system, reduce fatigue risk, improve alertness, protect long-term health, and reduce workplace accidents.
This petition requests the following:
Federal Government recognition of fatigue harm as a national OH&S issue
State and Territory Governments to mandate SHZ in high-risk industries
Local Councils to build SHZ for night-shift and essential workers
Employers to include SHZ within duty-of-care practices
Unions to support SHZ as a health protection requirement
National Standards Bodies to include SHZ principles in OH&S guidelines
Australia relies on night-shift workers.
If we rely on them, we must protect them.
Safe Health Zones are the beginning.
Where this petition will be delivered in Australia
Federal authorities:
• Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations
• Minister for Health and Aged Care
• Safe Work Australia
State and Territory authorities:
• All Ministers for Industrial Relations or Workplace Safety
Local government:
• Australian Local Government Association
• Local councils in regions with significant night-shift activity
Union bodies:
• ACTU
• Transport Workers Union
• Health Services Union
• United Workers Union
• Rail, Tram and Bus Union
• CPSU
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PETITION 2: GLOBAL VERSION
Title:
Protect Night-Shift Workers Worldwide: Implement Safe Health Zones in Every Country
Subtitle:
A global petition calling for SHZ to protect the world’s most vulnerable workforce.
Petition Text (Global)
Night-shift workers keep entire nations functioning.
Hospitals, transport systems, emergency services, and supply chains rely on people whose health is pushed to the limit.
Fatigue, circadian disruption, cognitive overload, heat accumulation, impaired judgment, mental exhaustion, and reduced immunity are common but preventable risks.
NaturismRE proposes Safe Health Zones as a global public health intervention.
SHZ use natural and science-aligned recovery practices such as:
• natural cooling and thermoregulation
• grounding
• reduced sensory load
• calm low-light environments
• passive cooling
• minimal clothing
• supervised non-sexual recovery settings
• natural textures and stress reduction
This petition calls on:
• Governments to recognise fatigue harm as a public health risk
• Employers in high-risk sectors to adopt SHZ
• Local and regional councils to build SHZ for essential workers
• Unions worldwide to support SHZ as a fundamental worker right
• International labour bodies to include SHZ guidelines in global safety standards
Night-shift workers protect our societies.
Now society must protect them.