BACKGROUND High levels of stress among ambulance personnel have been attributed to the conditions of ambulance work. However, there is little research to support this notion, and it has been questioned whether ambulance work is inherently stressful. We compared the severity and frequency level of organizational and ambulance-specific stressors, and studied their relationship to organizational c...

Overtime pays and work agreements between workers outsourcing companies are often not enforceable. This study aims to determine the form of legal protection for overtime wages in their remedies. research is normative juridical, especially on systematics level synchronization. The results showed that there must be orders worker approvals. given after working more than 40 hours/week, a maximum 4 ...

Health[1] Health[1]Cancer [2]Depression [3]Diseases [4]Exercise [5]Psychology [6]Denmark [7]Videnskab.dk [8] New research shows that mindfulness-based therapy can effectively reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression in cancer patients. When people are diagnosed with cancer, their brains start working overtime. What will happen in the future? Will I die? What will happen to my family? Answers t...

The standard literature on working time has modelled the decisions of firms in a deterministic framework in which firms can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we follow the real options approach, which allows us to investigate the value to a firm of waiting to adjust labour when the firm ́s revenues in domestic currency are stochast...

The speed in distributing the products of industry is influenced by production produced itself. SMEs know that ECO one manufacturing industries engaged food manufacturing. there are obstacles (problems) experienced, namely occurrence inequality between capacity tofu can be and demand for must met. purpose this study to increase Tofu Eco terms increasing working time. method used research dynami...

PT. XYZ is a company engaged in manufacturing metal or iron plate processing. The problem being faced that the does not plan for right number of operators. This causes production target met because it has limited human resources. In working time analysis, standard results are 108,33 seconds 1,8 minutes each unit. Based on Work Load Analysis (WLA), average workload at work station 90%. However, ...

The discharge summary (DS) is a document that contains the diagnosis, comorbidities, procedures, complications, and future treatment plan for a particular patient after an inpatient hospital stay. The DS is completed by junior medical staff and is delivered to the general practitioner (GP). DS completion is time consuming and tedious, and DSs are usually not completed within the recommended tim...

MANY NURSES WHO graduated in the past year and are seeking employment in a hospital are facing a shortage of open positions due to the economic downturn. Because hospitals are seeing less employee turnover, the nursing workforce has stabilized. Also, some experienced nurses may be delaying retirement because their retirement funds or their homes lost value, and some employed nurses may be worki...

Following current prognosis, demographic development raises expectations of an aging of the working population. Therefore, keeping employees healthy and strengthening their ability to work, becomes more and more important. When employees become older, dealing with age-related impairments of sensory functions, such as hearing impairment, is a central issue. Recent evidence suggests that negative...

BACKGROUND Mental ill health is the most frequent cause of long-term sickness absence and disability retirement in Denmark. Some instances of mental ill health might be due to long working hours. A recent large cross-sectional study of a general working population in Norway found that not only "very much overtime", but also "moderate overtime" (41-48 work hours/week) was significantly associate...