Increased injuries on night shift

Smith, Lesley; Folkard, Simon; Poole, Charles

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(94)90636-x

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“…Apparently due to occasional sleepiness, shift work is associated with the risk of occupational injuries (49,50). Recently, the effects of nonstandard shift schedules on occupational accidents in more than 100 000 job records were analyzed in a follow-up study covering 13 years (49).…”

Section: Shift Workmentioning

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Workhours in relation to work stress, recovery and health

Härmä

2006

Scand J Work Environ Health

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This paper aims at describing the associations between workhours and psychosocial work characteristics and reviews the health effects of workhours and the related pathways. The role of insufficient sleep as a possible common pathway from workhours and work stress to cardiovascular illness is discussed. Finally, the key possibilities for improving recovery and health through changes in workhours are identified. Night work and shift work are related to a wide range of health effects, the evidence for the risk of cardiovascular morbidity being the strongest. Insufficient or poor sleep, related to insufficient recovery, can be a common pathway from long workhours, shift work, and work stress to cardiovascular illness. The most promising worktime-related means for decreasing the psychosocial workload and negative health effects of workhours would be (i) to regulate overtime and excessive workhours, (ii) increase individual worktime control, and (iii) increase recovery from the introduction of sleep-promoting principles into shift rotation.

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Section: Shift Workmentioning

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Workhours in relation to work stress, recovery and health

Härmä

2006

Scand J Work Environ Health

326

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“…Several studies have examined the relationship between the type of shift schedule (eg, day, evening, night, rotating) and the risk of workplace accidents (39)(40)(41)(42)(43)(44)(45)(46)(47)(48). Other studies have investigated whether workplace accidents are related to shift duration (49)(50)(51), time of day within a shift (52)(53)(54), or the number of successive shifts worked over several days or nights (55)(56).…”

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“…3 Many of the existing research findings are incomplete and inconsistent. For example, some studies have concluded that night shifts have the greatest level of risk (43,47), while others have found that evening shifts (42) or rotating shifts (41,(45)(46) are the most dangerous. Other studies have not detected any evidence of a relationship between the type of shift and injury risk (14,(60)(61)(62) or have found that conventional day work is the most dangerous (44).…”

Section: Dembe Et Almentioning

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Nonstandard shift schedules and the risk of job-related injuries

Dembe¹,

Erickson²,

Delbos³

et al. 2006

Scand J Work Environ Health

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“…Different studies have been undertaken in order to ascertain the cause of the occupational injuries. Work conditions 10) , educational status and safety training 11) , experience 12) , smoking 13) , work shift 14) , and speed of work 15) have all been designated as responsible factors. Some studies have highlighted the role of young age and job security.…”

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Occupational Injury Proneness in Young Workers: A Survey in Stone Quarries

Saha¹,

Sadhu

2013

Journal of Occupational Health

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Occupational Injury Proneness in Young Workers: A Survey in Stone Quarries: Asim SAHA, et al. Regional Occupational Health Centre (Eastern), India— Objectives Workplace injuries are of concern in adolescent and child workers. The factors of such injuries are important for injury prevention. This study explored the predictors of injury in such workers. Methods This study was carried out in stone quarries and included 147 children and adolescent workers (81 males and 66 females). The mean age of the subjects was 11.3 years. An interviewer‐administered questionnaire survey was performed to collect personal, occupational, morbidity and injury details. Descriptive analysis followed by logistic regression was undertaken to obtain the contribution of different factors on workplace injury occurrence. Results Age (OR: 0.73 95% CI: 0.53−0.99), nature of work (OR: 29.4 95% CI: 2.5−340.7), work hours per day (OR: 1.77 95% CI: 1.3−2.3), musculoskeletal complaint (OR: 15.8 95% CI: 4.8−52.2) and education (OR: 0.24 95% CI: 0.08−0.7) showed significant effects on workplace injuries. However, duration of employment and body mass index had no significant contribution. Conclusions This study stresses the need to strictly stop employment of child labor in such occupations in accordance with the national law. It shows that apart from nature of job, age of worker, work hours/day, musculoskeletal morbidity and education are significant predictors of occupational injuries and that training of such workers with regard to safe practices, provision for education, alleviation of musculoskeletal morbidity, suitable restriction of work hours/day and awareness generation among parents regarding the imminent danger of such labor in their children will ensure a positive impact in protecting young and child workers from occupational injuries.

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Increased injuries on night shift

Cited by 251 publications

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Workhours in relation to work stress, recovery and health

Workhours in relation to work stress, recovery and health

Nonstandard shift schedules and the risk of job-related injuries

Occupational Injury Proneness in Young Workers: A Survey in Stone Quarries

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