Possible Broad Impacts of Long Work Hours

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• Personal Author:
  Caruso, Claire C.
• Description:
  The paper summarizes research linking long work hours to a wide range of risks to workers, families, employers, and the community. The risks are theorized to stem from less time to recover from work, longer exposure to workplace hazards, and less time to attend to non-work responsibilities. Risks to workers include sleep deprivation, poor recovery from work, decrements in neuro-cognitive and physiological functioning, illnesses, adverse reproductive outcomes, and injuries. Risks to families include delayed marriages and child bearing, and obesity in children. Risks to employers include reduced productivity and increases in workers errors. Mistakes by fatigued workers have broad reaching impacts to the community: medical errors, automobile crashes with other drivers on the road, and industrial disasters that damage the environment. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Fatigue Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Stress, Psychological Workplace
• Keywords:
  Employee-exposure Employee-health Injuries Job-stress Occupational-health Risk-analysis Risk-factors Work-environment Worker-health Workers
• ISSN:
  0019-8366
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  44
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20031207
• Citation:
  Ind Health 2006 Oct; :44(4):531-536
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2007
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Industrial Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:696f718b611f124abb48766026742f66038e6074f17cf632367e95e136a877f2009016467c913e70feaf00fa6c889df31eda854173cedcbcd7efad7a12eb8c3e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/191523/cdc_191523_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 39.04 KB ]