Arbeit zur falschen Zeit am falschen Platz? Eine Matching-Analyse zu gesundheitlichen Beanspruchungen bei Schicht- und Nachtarbeit

Struck, Olaf; Dütsch, Matthias; Liebig, Verena; Springer, Angelina

doi:10.1007/s12651-013-0132-3

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“…Permanent night workers more often work in services and less often in the public sector or industry compared to rotating night shift workers and employees in general. Further, we find that, compared to all dependent employees, night workers more often engage in work characterized by adverse physical and ambient working conditions as known from other representative German surveys, such as the BIBB/BAuA Employment Survey and the German Microcensus (Beermann 2010;Struck et al 2012; Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin 2015). Nevertheless, some differences between permanent night workers and rotating night shift workers also become apparent.…”

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confidence: 58%

“…Other studies on night work found a similar pattern of results: Representative surveys showed that night workers were more often affected by adverse psychosocial demands, e.g. lack of decision latitude, monotone tasks, but especially physical demands, such as difficult body posture and heavy lifting, work with hazardous contaminants, noise and vibrancy exposure, and exposure chemicals, dust, smoke, or gas (Struck et al 2012;Liersch 2014).…”

Section: Working Conditionsmentioning

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Permanent Night Work in Germany

2018

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Research on night work focuses almost solely on night work as part of rotating shift schedules. Thus, little is known about permanent night workers, their working conditions and health. The aim of this study is to give insight on characteristics of permanent night workers, their health status and their work–life balance. Data from the BAuA-Working Time Survey 2015 were used and 189 employees in permanent night work identified. Results are presented in comparison to statistics on employees in general and to rotating shift workers with night shifts in particular. The most common occupations among permanent night workers are professional nurses and heavy truck and lorry drivers. Night workers less often rated their health as (very) good or were satisfied with their worklife balance compared to employees in gen-eral. They also reported health complaints more often. Findings in comparison to employees working in rotating shifts with night work were mixed. The results point towards some concerns regarding health and work–life balance related to perma-nent night work.

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Section: Working Conditionsmentioning

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Permanent Night Work in Germany

2018

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“…More recent studies have addressed the fact that classic cardiovascular risk factors (e.g., lack of exercise, smoking, diet) have a much greater impact on the health of employees than shift and night work (20). According to Struck et al (106), the health hazards of shift and night work are based more on "third-party variables" (e.g., socio-demographic influencing factors, stressful workplaces) that occur regardless of the working hours. The association between shift and night work and impaired health must be interpreted more cautiously and in a more differentiated manner.…”

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Psychosocial Work Stress and Health Risks – A Cross-Sectional Study of Shift Workers From the Hotel and Catering Industry and the Food Industry

Hunger¹,

Seibt

2022

Front. Public Health

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PurposePsychosocial work stress, and shift and night work are considered risk indicators for impaired health. Using the effort-reward (ER) model, it was possible to examine which relationships exist for shift workers between clusters (CL) of different levels of psychosocial work stress and overcommitment (OC) and cardiovascular or psychological health indicators, and which predictive value is evident in individual health indicators to explain the clusters.MethodsThe data were collected as part of an occupational health prevention program. The analysis sample consisted of 199 shift workers from alternating shift systems with and without night work (43%) (average age: 40 ± 12 years, men: 47%). Psychosocial work stress was recorded using the ER imbalance (ERI) questionnaire. To determine the clusters, ERI and OC were entered into a cluster analysis. Blood pressure, body mass index, waist-hip ratio, PROCAM score (risk of a heart attack within the next 10 years), sporting activity, and smoking were included as cardiovascular indicators, psychological wellbeing (GHQ-12) and inability to recovery (IR) (FABA) as psychological health indicators. Shift system, sex, and age were entered into the statistical analyses as control variables. Multinomial logistic regression models were used to identify health-related predictors to explain the ER-OC clusters.ResultsThree different ER-OC clusters emerged: low-stress: 36%, normal: 44%, risk: 20%. While normal psychosocial work stress is present in the low-stress and the normal CL, in the risk CL 28% of the shift workers show a health-endangering ERI and 48% show an excessive OC. No significant cluster-specific differences were determined for the cardiovascular health indicators. Rather, the known sex and age effects were confirmed and the shift system had no significant effect. Significantly more shift workers in the risk CL had impaired psychological health (18 vs. 1/6%) and an IR (52 vs. 0/12%) than in the low-stress and normal CL. IR turned out to be the strongest predictor of the explanation for the ER-OC clusters (49%).ConclusionIR could be assigned an independent diagnostic value for the assessment of psychosocial work stresses and discussed as a new component of occupational health screening concepts for shift workers. Independently of this, the health indicators signal an urgent need for occupational health prevention and care.

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“…Deshalb ist Schichtarbeit durch ein höheres Belastungspotenzial geprägt. Einige Studien weisen darauf hin, dass Schichtarbeit häufiger mit physischen [1,3,7], psychischen [8,9] und psychosozialen Belastungen [1,3] einhergeht. Auch verfügen Schichtarbeitende über weniger Ressourcen, wie etwa Kontroll-und Planungsmöglichkeiten, Einfluss auf Arbeitsmenge und -inhalt [3] sowie Anerkennung durch Vorgesetzte [1].…”

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Schichtarbeit bei Männern und Frauen an der Schwelle zum höheren Erwerbsalter – Arbeitsumstände und Gesundheitszustand

2015

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The number of older employees in shift and night work has increased significantly in recent years. Furthermore, the proportion of women in shift and night work has increased markedly. This is due to the aging workforce and the expansion of shift work in the tertiary sector. Previous research shows that shift work is often associated with health risks. Against this background, the aim of the present study is to examine the situation of working men and women on the threshold to higher working age with regard to the relationship between shift work and physical health. We employed data from the study "lidA - leben in der Arbeit" German Cohort Study on Work, Age and Health, a survey of the German baby boom cohorts born in 1959 and 1965 (n=5 637). Linear regression models are used to study the effect of shift work - with and without night work - and of further work exposures on the baby boomers' physical health status. The models control for sleep and health-related behaviour and are stratified by gender. Among women, also the scope of work was taken into account. The results show that male shift workers are burdened by their on average lower occupational status and by physical exposure; female shift workers additionally suffer from high personal effort and low rewards and female part-time shift workers also from overcommitment. Working conditions of shift workers are strongly characterised by work stress. In order to preserve aging shift workers' work ability, some organisational measures seem necessary. In this context, occupational safety and health management as well as opportunities for recovery and encouraging leadership should be considered.

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Arbeit zur falschen Zeit am falschen Platz? Eine Matching-Analyse zu gesundheitlichen Beanspruchungen bei Schicht- und Nachtarbeit

Cited by 12 publications

References 48 publications

Permanent Night Work in Germany

Permanent Night Work in Germany

Psychosocial Work Stress and Health Risks – A Cross-Sectional Study of Shift Workers From the Hotel and Catering Industry and the Food Industry

Schichtarbeit bei Männern und Frauen an der Schwelle zum höheren Erwerbsalter – Arbeitsumstände und Gesundheitszustand

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