Media

We are available for media interviews on the following topics:

  • Sleep and Sleep Deprivation
  • Effects of sleep deprivation on health and safety
  • Circadian rhythym sleep disorders (shift work sleep disorder, delayed sleep phase disorder)
  • Night owl behavior and its implications for work, relationships, and parenting
  • Alertness strategies
  • Fatigue and driving or working
  • Shift work - its effects and how to cope with it

Requests for interviews should be directed to:

Carolyn Schur, President, Alert@Work Human Resource Services

Toll-free: 1-866-975-1165 or email

Special features on sleep and fatigue are appropriate for:

National Sleep Awareness Week

National Occupational Health and Safety Week

Permission to reprint articles or excerpts from our publications: forward details to email as above.

Magazine Articles Carolyn Schur has either written or been quoted in:

Managing Shiftworker Health and Safety

Work Strategies for Night Owls and Early Birds

The Crow of The Early Bird

Late risers lobbying for workplace recognition

Published in:

Quoted in:

  • Canadian Occupational Safety, January 1998
  • Canadian HR Reporter, January 11, 1999
  • Successful Meetings, May 1999
  • Saskatchewan Business, March/April 2000
  • Canadian Living, May 2000
  • Chatelaine, June 2001
  • CP Press and newspapers August 3, 2002

Interviewed by:

  • CBC Radio, Saskatchewan, Dec. 2008
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation. series in 2002
  • CKNW, Vancouver, July 2002

Photo and Book Covers

Carolyn Schur