The role of work schedules in occupational health and safety

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• Personal Author:
  Geiger-Brown J ; Lee CJ ; Trinkoff AM
• Description:
  Adverse work schedules increase the risk of accidents, injuries, acute illness and chronically impaired health for workers. As society moves toward providing many services 24 h per day and 7 day per week, the need is increasing for work schedules characterized by shift work, rotating shifts, and early start times. According to the 2004 Current Population Survey, 18 % of full-time workers in the USA spend some portion of their work schedule outside of a 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. time frame (McMenamin, 2007). Extended work hours (more than 8 h per day, or more than 40 h per week) also are increasing steadily (Caruso, Hitchcock, Dick, Russo, & Schmidt, 2004) for a variety of reasons. Some workers elect to take secondary employment to boost their earnings, particularly those with low wages or whose household income has decreased because of a partner's unemployment. Others choose, or are required to, work extended hours because of shift design (for example, 12-h shifts as a norm). Since the economic downturn that began in late 2008, there has been a trend for employers to use overtime to manage excess demand, which allows them to maintain productivity without hiring new workers (Maher & Aeppel, 2009). In the USA and Canada, employees work 200-300 h more per year than in France, Germany, or Sweden because of an absence of legal minimums for paid vacation days or holidays (Yelin, 2009). [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety Shift Work Schedule Workload Workplace
• Keywords:
  Shift-work Shift-workers Work-capability Work-capacity Work-environment Work-intervals Work-performance Workers
• ISBN:
  9781461448389
• Publisher:
  Springer
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; New York ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  297-322
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20042043
• Citation:
  Handbook of occupational health and wellness. Gatchel RJ, Shultz IZ, ed. New York: Springer, 2013 Jan; :297-322
• Contact Point Address:
  Jeanne M. Geiger-Brown PH.D, R. N., Department of Family and Community Health, University of Maryland School of Nursing, 655 W. Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD, 21201
• Email:
  jgeiger@son.umaryland.edu
• Editor(s):
  Gatchel RJ; Schultz IZ
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• Performing Organization:
  University of Maryland - Baltimore
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20070901
• Source Full Name:
  Handbook of occupational health and wellness
• End Date:
  20100831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:fb1b5b672d915fc5eb34b195869f787f2492528e22c948bb9c61946a94fe6a163cf8b2e33a0292f091fb9fd91d62fd0ff6eafa6e56e36ea817c7c95ee02b6d1d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/194411/cdc_194411_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 531.33 KB ]