Preventing overwork-related deaths and disorders—needs of continuous and multi-faceted efforts

Tsutsumi, Atsushi

doi:10.1002/1348-9585.12062

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“… 23 Sleep duration is greatly affected by working hours and commuting time. In Japan, long working hours and exhaustion from overwork (this is called “karoshi”), which is a health hazard caused by long working hours, have become public health problems, 24 , 25 and measures taken to reduce long working hours are included in the HPM survey. 26 Commitment by the company's top executives is important to reduce long working hours.…”

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Association of Organizational Factors With the Proportion of Healthy Behaviours and Control of Blood Pressure at a Company Level

Nagata

Nagata²,

Takahashi³

et al. 2021

Journal of Occupational &Amp; Environmental Medicine

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Objectives: The study examined a relationship between organizational factors and the health outcomes (health behaviors and blood pressure control) at a company level. Methods: This cross-sectional study using data from listed corporations on a stock exchange with 1000 to 30,000 employees that completed the health and productivity management survey of Japan in 2019. Results: We analyzed 886 companies. The presence of occupational health staff was associated with good health behaviors (no smoking and healthy body mass index) and good control of blood pressure. Implementation of education for manager was associated with low smoking rates. Conclusion: The implementation of organizational factors by corporations may improve the lifestyle behaviors and disease management of their employees.

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Association of Organizational Factors With the Proportion of Healthy Behaviours and Control of Blood Pressure at a Company Level

Nagata

Nagata²,

Takahashi³

et al. 2021

Journal of Occupational &Amp; Environmental Medicine

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“…Nevertheless, 8 h a week is optimal for receiving the wellbeing effects of work (Kamerāde et al 2019). The negative social welfare effects (as separate from the environmental effects, discussed below) of overemployment are manifold -including health problems (physical or mental, even death in dangerous occupations), the effect of sedentary lifestyles, isolation, and stress, as well as separation from and little time with family or friends (Jacobs and Gerson 2001;Cho et al 2018;Tsutsumi 2019). Meaningless work, or so called "bullshit jobs" which do not add to societal welfare and have little value (according to the employees in these jobs), also have a negative effect on wellbeing (Graeber 2018).…”

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From “Decent work and economic growth” to “Sustainable work and economic degrowth”: a new framework for SDG 8

Kreinin

Aigner

2021

Empirica

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The sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) have successfully raised awareness and built momentum for taking collective action, while also remaining uncritical of the central causes of the environmental crises – economic growth, inequality, and overconsumption in the Global North. We analyse SDG 8 “Decent Work and Economic Growth” from the perspective of strong sustainability – as phenomena, institutions and ideologies – and find that it does not fit the criteria of strong sustainability. Based on this observation, we propose a novel framework for SDG8 in line with strong sustainability and the latest scientific research, “Sustainable Work and Economic Degrowth”, including a first proposal for new sub-goals, targets and indicators. This encompasses an integrated systems approach to achieving the SDGs’ overalls goals – a sustainable future for present and future generations. The key novel contributions of the paper include new indicators to measure societies’ dependence on economic growth, to ensure the provisioning of welfare independent of economic growth.

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“…Employees are generally denied being exploited for the advantage of the company and the self-interest of the employers. Many experts, according to Tsutsumi (2019), have advised adopting a daily minimum rest period to help people recover from weariness and get enough sleep. However, karojisatsu cannot be averted solely by reducing working hours unless there is room for modifications in the quantity of work and handling ways.…”

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Impacts of the Japanese Middle-Class Work Culture on the Development of the Nation

Sanmargaraja

Gobi

Mine

et al. 2021

E-BPJ

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Japanese are legendary for their workaholic nature which eventually makes Japan be super-aged country. This research aims to identify the drawbacks of their work culture towards their nation. 345 questionnaires were received using convenience sampling in Kanto and Kyushu areas. The recorded Cronbach Alpha of reliability is 0.623, which is an acceptable level. From the descriptive analysis, is it found that the majority of the respondents strongly agree that the job stress makes them neglect their responsibilities, increasing karoshi and karojisatsu, increasing late marriages, and declining birth rate. The government should encourage a healthy work-life balance among the Japanese. Keywords: Labor force, Karoshi, Karojisatsu, super-aged nation. eISSN: 2398-4287© 2021. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians), and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v6i18.3054

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Preventing overwork-related deaths and disorders—needs of continuous and multi-faceted efforts

Cited by 14 publications

References 6 publications

Association of Organizational Factors With the Proportion of Healthy Behaviours and Control of Blood Pressure at a Company Level

Association of Organizational Factors With the Proportion of Healthy Behaviours and Control of Blood Pressure at a Company Level

From “Decent work and economic growth” to “Sustainable work and economic degrowth”: a new framework for SDG 8

Impacts of the Japanese Middle-Class Work Culture on the Development of the Nation

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