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Document ID (ISN)102108
CIS number 03-1464
ISBN(s) 89-950050-1-7
Year 2003
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Spurgeon A.
Korean Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA)
Title Working time - Its impact on safety and health
Bibliographic information ILO Publications, International Labour Office, 1211 Genève 22, Switzerland, 2003. 143p. Illus. 220 ref.
Internet access http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/condtrav/pdf/wtwo-as-03.pdf [in English]
Abstract This report analyses the effects of hours of work and the organization of working time on workers' safety and health. Main topics covered: current trends (number of hours, shift work, non-standard working hours); methodological issues; working time and health (mental health, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and reproductive disorders, effects in special work groups); working time and safety; individual differences (age, sex, circumstances, personality and behaviour, health status, job type); intervention strategies (work-schedule organization, modification of the work environment, modification of individual responses, training and education); practical recommendations for the management of working time (risk assessment, hazard identification, control measures, monitoring and adjustment of intervention measures; research needs).
Descriptors (primary) occupational safety and health; work time schedules; hours of work; ILO
Descriptors (secondary) antifertility effects; work organization; report; shift work; night work; part-time employment; cardiovascular diseases; human behaviour; mental health; work-rest schedules; human failure; research; gastrointestinal diseases
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Country / State or ProvinceILO
Subject(s) Ergonomics and work organization
Broad subject area(s) Physiology, ergonomics
Browse category(ies) Precarious employment
Hours of work
Genetic factors in reaction to exposures