Reducing risks to women linked to shift work, long work hours, and related workplace sleep and fatigue issues

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• Personal Author:
  Caruso, Claire C.
• Description:
  In the United States, an estimated 12% to 28% of working women are on shift work schedules, and 12% work more than 48 hours per week. Shift work and long work hours are associated with many health and safety risks, including obesity, injuries, and negative reproductive outcomes. Over time, the worker is at risk for developing a wide range of chronic diseases. These work schedules can also strain personal relationships, owing to fatigue and poor mood from sleep deprivation and reduced quality time to spend with family and friends. Worker errors from fatigue can lead to reduced quality of goods and services, negatively impacting the employer. In addition, mistakes by fatigued workers can have far-reaching negative effects on the community, ranging from medical care errors to motor vehicle crashes and industrial disasters that endanger others. To reduce the many risks that are linked to these demanding work hours, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducts research, develops guidance and authoritative recommendations, and translates and disseminates scientific information to protect workers, their families, employers, and the community. The key message to reduce these risks is making sleep a priority in the employer's systems for organizing work and in the worker's personal life. The NIOSH website has freely available online training programs with suggestions for workers and their managers to help them better cope with this workplace hazard. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Family Fatigue Mental Disorders Mental Health Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Public Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Shift Work Schedule Sleep Sleep Initiation And Maintenance Disorders Staff Development Women

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• Keywords:
  Families Humans Management-personnel Mental-fatigue Mental-processes Occupational-hazards Performance-capability Physiological-fatigue Public-health Risk-factors Safety-education Shift-work Shift-workers Sleep-deprivation Sleep-disorders Training Work-intervals Work-organization Work-performance Worker-health

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• ISSN:
  1540-9996
• 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:
  24
• Issue:
  10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046738
• Citation:
  J Womens Health 2015 Oct; 24(10):789-794
• Contact Point Address:
  Claire C. Caruso, PhD, RN, FAAN, Division of Applied Research and Technology National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health 1150 Tusculum Avenue, MS C-24, Cincinnati, OH 45226-1998
• Email:
  ccaruso@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• NORA Priority Area:
  Wholesale and Retail Trade
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Women's Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202072/cdc_202072_DS1.pdf
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