BACKGROUND The potential impact of employment on maternal health, particularly in relation to gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia, has been subject to research. However, there is limited evidence on associations between shift work and long working hours on the incidence of these conditions. AIMS To evaluate potential associations between maternal shift work and long working hours durin...

The working hours of junior doctors have been a focus of discussion in Australia since the mid-1990s. Several national organizations, including the Australian Medical Association (AMA), have been prominent in advancing this agenda and have collected data (most of which is self-reported) on the working hours of junior doctors over the last 15 years. Overall, the available data indicate that work...

BACKGROUND Establishing a threshold number of working hours is very important when making recommendations to protect people from the potentially harmful health effects caused by long working hours. AIM To clarify the influence of working hours on both mental and physical symptoms of fatigue and use the data obtained to determine permissible working hours. METHODS Cross-sectional survey of m...

The flexible working hours allows employees to focus on multiple roles in today’s competitive working environments. This arrangement has been widely practiced in order to create balance between work and lifestyle. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the flexible working hours and employees’ motivation. The survey questionnaires were used for data collection in t...

Bus drivers often have irregular working hours like split shifts and their work involve high levels of stress. These factors can lead to severe sleepiness and dangerous driving. The purpose of this study is to highlight how split shifts affect sleepiness and performance during afternoon drive. The study is an experiment on real road with an equipped bus driven by professional bus drivers. The s...

Annualising working hours (i.e., the possibility of irregularly distributing throughout the year the total amount of the employees working hours) is one of the means to face the seasonal nature of the demand. Annualising working hours provides much flexibility to the production system (which is one of the main principles of lean production), so the company is allowed to plan the staff working t...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether any impairments in health and social lives can be found under different kinds of flexible working hours, and whether such effects are related to specific characteristics of these working hours. METHODS Two studies -- a company based survey (N=660) and an internet survey (N=528) -- have been conducted. The first one was a questionnaire study (paper and pencil) on e...

Maternal Working Hours and the Well-Being of Adolescent Children This study investigates how maternal working hours are related to various outcomes in children aged 11 to 15 using a sample of mothers and adolescents in the British Household Panel Survey. Research that examines the effects of maternal employment on children has been motivated by the rapid increase of female participation rates i...

uncertainty has surrounded the issue of confidentiality. While most doctors will respect the confidentiality of those seeking contraceptive advice, the suspicion has remained that a few, because of their personal beliefs, would breach confidentiality in the case ofsomeone under 16. The difficulty for the young person lies in distinguishing between those doctors they can and cannot trust. The co...

The use of extended work shifts and overtime has escalated as hospitals cope with a shortage of registered nurses (RNs). Little is known, however, about the prevalence of these extended work periods and their effects on patient safety. Logbooks completed by 393 hospital staff nurses revealed that participants usually worked longer than scheduled and that approximately 40 percent of the 5,317 wo...