The impact of rest breaks on subjective fatigue in physicians of the General Hospital of Vienna.

Aims: Medical doctors are affected by high levels of occupational burnout. Work organization such as sufficient rest breaks can decrease stress and fatigue; however, rest breaks are often skipped under high workload and time pressure. The present study sought to investigate the effect of self-determined rest breaks on acute and daily levels of fatigue in physicians of the General Hospital of Vienna.

Working Time Society consensus statements: Evidence-based effects of shift work and non-standard working hours on workers, family and community.

Working time arrangements that require shift work or other non-standard working hours have significant potential to encroach on time that is highly valued for family, social and leisure activity. This can often result in workers experiencing poorer work-family or work-life balance. Based on an extensive literature search and expert knowledge, primary risk factors were identified including shift work; long, irregular and unpredictable working hours; and work on evenings and weekends (in combination and independent of shift work).

Higher risks when working unusual times? A cross-validation of the effects on safety, health, and work-life balance.

Purpose: Replication and cross-validation of results on health and safety risks of work at unusual times.

Methods: Data from two independent surveys (European Working Conditions Surveys 2005 and 2010; EU 2005: n = 23,934 and EU 2010: n = 35,187) were used to examine the relative risks of working at unusual times (evenings, Saturdays, and Sundays) on work-life balance, work-related health complaints, and occupational accidents using logistic regression while controlling for potential confounders such as demographics, work load, and shift work.

Results: For the EU 2005 survey, evening work was significantly associated with an increased risk of poor work-life balance (OR 1.

Health effects of supplemental work from home in the European Union.

Internationalization and technological developments have changed the work organization in developed and developing industrial economies. Information and communication technologies, such as computers and smartphones, are increasingly used, allowing more temporal and spatial flexibility of work. This may lead to an increase in supplemental work, i.

When work calls-associations between being contacted outside of regular working hours for work-related matters and health.

Boundaries between work and private life are diminishing, but little is known on how this influences worker health. Therefore, we examined the association between work-related contacts outside of regular working hours by e-mail or phone and self-reported health in a representative sample of European employees (n = 23 760). The risk of reporting ≥1 health problem(s) was increased in workers contacted sometimes (odds ratio [OR]: 1.

The role of ergonomic and psychosocial workplace factors in the reporting of back injuries among U.S. home health aides.

Background: Due to the aging population and a shift to patient home care, home health aides (HHAs) are a fast-growing occupation. Since little is known about workplace risk factors for back injuries among HHAs, we examined the role of ergonomic and psychosocial factors in injury reporting among HHAs.

Methods: We used the 2007 U.

Correlates of seasonal flu vaccination among U.S. home health aides.

Introduction: Home health aides (HAs) receive limited training and reach many older patient populations highly susceptible to influenza virus. We sought to examine socio-demographic correlates of seasonal flu vaccination receipt among HAs.

Methods: We analyzed data from the 2007 U.

A structural equation modeling approach to fatigue-related risk factors for occupational injury.

Occupational injury is associated with numerous individual and work-related risk factors, including long working hours and short sleep duration; however, the complex mechanisms causing such injuries are not yet fully understood. The authors used structural equation modeling (SEM) as a novel approach to examine fatigue-related direct and indirect potential risk factors for occupational injury. The study sample contained 89,366 employed workers from the National Health Interview Survey (pooled across 6 years, 2004-2009), an annual survey of a representative cross-sectional sample of the US population.

The effect of rest breaks on time to injury - a study on work-related ladder-fall injuries in the United States.

Objectives: Rest breaks and other work-related temporal factors, such as time spent on task, influence the accumulation of fatigue, and thus impact occupational injury risk. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of rest breaks on "time to injury" (the time between start of work and injury) for injured workers treated in a nationally representative sample of US emergency departments.

Methods: Using the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), we identified 629 workers who had experienced a work-related ladder-fall.