Forward: special issue on working hours and fatigue.

Details

• Personal Author:
  Howard J
• Description:
  The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) was established as a research agency focused on the study of worker safety and health, and on empowering employers and workers to create safe and healthy workplaces. Our mandate is to assure "every man and woman in the Nation safe and healthful working conditions and to preserve our human resources." To help meet this mandate, NIOSH established the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA), a 3-decades old, extensive partnership program that includes stakeholders from industry, labor, academia, the practitioner community, and other governmental agencies. NORA aims to stimulate innovative research and workplace interventions and over the past 3 decades, it has become a research framework for the Nation and NIOSH. NORA is an important input into NIOSH Strategic Plan, which contains seven strategic goals targeted at specific health and safety issues facing the U.S. workforce. One of the seven strategic goals is to "promote safe and healthy work design and worker well-being." As such, NIOSH established the Healthy Work Design and Well-Being Program (HWD). This program aims to protect and advance worker safety, health, and well-being by improving the design of work, management practices, and the physical and psychosocial work environment. Working hours, sleep, and fatigue is critical issues for HWD and affect all industry sectors. ... This special issue of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine is the culmination of discussions and work resulting from our NIOSH Working Hours, Sleep and Fatigue Forum held in 2019. It represents the efforts of diverse HWD and NORA partnerships and networks to recognize and address the risks associated with nonstandard work hours, impaired sleep, and fatigue. This collaborative approach identified the most critical issues and available countermeasures in these areas. We also sought to develop new research objectives for addressing those needs. While NIOSH serves as the steward to move this effort forward, this was truly a national effort to identify future directions in addressing these occupational health and safety concerns. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Fatigue Occupational Health Safety Sleep Sleep Initiation And Maintenance Disorders
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Fatigue; Sleep Work Schedules; Fatigue; Sleep Deprivation; Shift Workers; Long Work Hours;
• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  65
• Issue:
  11
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065310
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2022 Nov; 65(11):825-826
• Contact Point Address:
  John Howard, MD, Office of the Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 395 E Street SW, Suite 9200, Washington, DC 20201, USA
• Email:
  jhoward@cdc.gov
• Editor(s):
  Wong I; Swanson N
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2c1a5265ddc09aaefad020fcb58286255fa5fa9b9c485bdd0a4e411540d74912de11ca22b3d0ac9fbf01d07a713f5ddb316396fb049a5d7e919e17c839d30fdd
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/248894/cdc_248894_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 181.29 KB ]