Disability rates for cardiovascular and psychological disorders among autoworkers by job category, facility type, and facility overtime hours

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• Personal Author:
  Adamu MT ; Janevic T ; Johnson S ; Landsbergis PA ; Mirer FE ; Rothenberg L
• Description:
  Background: We examined the association between long work hours, assembly line work and stress-related diseases utilizing objective health and employment data from an employer's administrative databases. Methods: A North American automobile manufacturing company provided data for claims for sickness, accident and disability insurance (work absence of at least 4 days) for cardiovascular disease (CVD), hypertension and psychological disorders, employee demographics, and facility hours worked per year for 1996-2001. Age-adjusted claim rates and age-adjusted rate ratios were calculated using Poisson regression, except for comparisons between production and skilled trades workers owing to lack of age denominator data by job category. Associations between overtime hours and claim rates by facility were examined by Poisson regression and multi-level Poisson regression. Results: Claims for hypertension, coronary heart disease, CVD, and psychological disorders were associated with facility overtime hours. We estimate that a facility with 10 more overtime hours per week than another facility would have 4.36 more claims for psychological disorders, 2.33 more claims for CVD, and 3.29 more claims for hypertension per 1,000 employees per year. Assembly plants had the highest rates of claims for most conditions. Production workers tended to have higher rates of claims than skilled trades workers. Conclusions: Data from an auto manufacturer's administrative databases suggest that autoworkers working long hours, and assembly-line workers relative to skilled trades workers or workers in non-assembly facilities, have a higher risk of hypertension, CVD, and psychological disorders. Occupational disease surveillance and disease prevention programs need to fully utilize such administrative data. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Automobiles Cardiovascular Diseases Cardiovascular System Demography Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Mental Disorders Mental Health Occupational Diseases Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Shift Work Schedule Stress, Psychological Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Age-factors Assembly-line-workers Assembly Line Work Author Keywords: Autoworkers Automotive-industry Cardiovascular-disease Cardiovascular-system-disease Cardiovascular-system-disorders Cardiovascular Disease Demographic-characteristics Disabled-workers Hypertension Industrial-environment Industrial-factory-workers Information-systems Job-analysis Job-stress Lost-work-days Mathematical-models Motor-vehicles Occupational-diseases Overtime Psychological-disorders Psychological-effects Risk-factors Shift-work Shift-workers Stress Work-environment Work-intervals Work-operations Worker-health Workers Work Hours

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; New Jersey ; New York ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  56
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20042981
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2013 Jul; 56(7):755-764
• Contact Point Address:
  Paul A. Landsbergis, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Box 43, State University of New York-Downstate Mediacal Center, 450 Clarkson Ave., Brooklyn, NY 111203
• Email:
  paul.landsbergis@downstate.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• Performing Organization:
  Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20010930
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• End Date:
  20060929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:284a63b1ec7dffd34d3e36539bd5569ecfc439338c11646a539e20dbf5237b262e08415d9562d0b634b98225c074cc140554687e26ac92a8cd5abe37d6ed850f
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/195026/cdc_195026_DS1.pdf
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