| Document ID (ISN) | 107656 |
| CIS number |
08-225 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
0019-8366 - Industrial Health |
| Year |
2006 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Caruso C.C. |
| Title |
Possible broad impacts of long work hours |
| Bibliographic information |
Oct. 2006, Vol.44, No.4, p.531-536. 78 ref. |
| Internet access |
http://www.jniosh.go.jp/old/niih/en/indu_hel/2006/pdf/indhealth_44_4_531.pdf [in English]
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| Abstract |
This literature survey summarizes research linking long working hours to a wide range of risks to workers, families, employers and the community. The risks are theorized to stem from less time to recover from work, longer exposure to workplace hazards, and less time to attend to non-work responsibilities. Risks to workers include sleep deprivation, poor recovery from work, decrements in neuro-cognitive and physiological functioning, illnesses, adverse reproductive outcomes and injuries. Risks to families include delayed marriages and child bearing and obesity in children. Risks to employers include reduced productivity and increases in worker errors. Errors by fatigued workers have broad-reaching impacts to the community, including medical errors, automobile accidents and major industrial accidents that cause damage to the environment. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
work efficiency; state of health; fatigue; social aspects; major hazards; neurological effects; risk factors; hours of work |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
literature survey; antifertility effects; children; environmental pollution; obesity; sleep deprivation; human failure; cognitive performance |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | USA |
| Subject(s) |
Ergonomics and work organization
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| Broad subject area(s) |
Physiology, ergonomics
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| Browse category(ies) |
Diseases of the nervous system
Fatigue
Hours of work
Major hazards
Genetic factors in reaction to exposures
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