Innovations in Research and Practice Improving Shiftworker Health and Safety: The 24th International Shiftwork and Working Time Symposium

Details

• Personal Author:
  Honn KA ; Van Dongen HPA
• Description:
  This U13 Conference Grant enabled the organization of the 24th International Symposium on Shiftwork and Working Time ("Shiftwork2019"). The meeting was held at The Coeur d'Alene hotel and conference center in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, September 9- 13, 2019, and attended by 189 shiftwork researchers and practitioners (including 63 early career researchers). With as its theme "Innovations in Research and Practice Improving Shiftworker Health and Safety," the primary goal of the conference was to convene experts from around the world to share cutting-edge research, innovative ideas, and best practices regarding working time arrangements and their impact on health and safety. The scientific program featured three keynote lectures, eight plenary symposia, eight oral presentation sessions, and two poster sessions, making for more than 170 presentations in total. Topics addressed during the conference covered a wide spectrum of health and safety issues in shiftwork populations, ranging from healthy work schedule design to fatigue countermeasures, occupational hazards, long-term health consequences, and social and industrial implications of nontraditional working time arrangements. A post-conference survey yielded high ratings on the conference with regard to exchange of knowledge, relevance of presentations and discussions, atmosphere for discussions, location, time and space for socializing, and balance of topics. Peer-reviewed abstracts of the conference have been published in a freely accessible special issue of the journal Sleep Science, which is enclosed. The proceedings of the meeting, which include 34 peer-reviewed articles, are being published in a special double issue of Chronobiology International. The contents of the proceedings range from discussions of working time arrangements and work-life balance to the relationships between sleep and health, from the challenges of shiftwork for nurses and other health care workers to the impact of shiftwork in transportation industries, from circadian misalignment associated with nightwork to the nature and timing of food intake during the night, and from sleep inertia after awakening to the consequences of sleep loss for safety. With a large amount of information exchange, excellent discussion and networking opportunities, and exceptionally high scientific output, the 24th International Symposium on Shiftwork and Working Time was an unequivocal success. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Fatigue Occupational Health Safety Shift Work Schedule Sleep Sleep Initiation And Maintenance Disorders
• Keywords:
  Information Dissemination Occupational Safety And Health Shift Work Shift Workers Sleep Deprivation Work-life Balance Work Schedules
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Final Cooperative Agreement Report
• Place as Subject:
  Idaho ; OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-18
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063568
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U13-OH-011785, 2020 Oct; :1-18
• Contact Point Address:
  Hans P.A. Van Dongen (PI) & Kimberly A. Honn (Co-PI), Sleep and Performance Research Center, Washington State University, 412 E. Spokane Falls Blvd., Spokane, WA 99202-2131
• Email:
  hvd@wsu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• Performing Organization:
  Washington State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20190801
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20200731
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:54199b5a05029bbc7371e2905f9d204357f30a729abb34df9edf89902d3b662880f78de2e6305db06fc52a630d0df2a653a7051751736229d9edad6c8d55568f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/219077/cdc_219077_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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