Good morning. When CEDA approached me about speaking today, I was asked to concentrate on longer-term developments that will have a bearing on Australia’s future economic performance. Such an offer seemed hard to refuse, and so I looked around for a topic on which I could hopefully say something of interest. Given the impressive productivity growth that has been experienced over the past decade...

to find the quantity and quality of wastewaters of the two main industrial units of khoy city in west azerbaijan province, iran, namely the slaughterhouse and the totia chocolate factory, ten composite samples were taken in 112 hour intervals between 3.5 and 7.5 a.m. (4 hours working shift) from the slaughterhouse and between 7.5 a.m. and 2 p.m from the totia chocolate factory (8hours working s...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of long-time commuting and long-hour working on lifestyle including sleeping, physical exercise, breakfast, smoking, alcohol intake and mental health. In this cross-sectional study, data were collected from 146 school teachers in Tokyo. The binary associations of commuting time and working hours with lifestyle, mental stress measured by...

The aim of this review is to examine the effect of shift work and extended working hours on occupational injuries. A calculation based on four studies shows that the risk of occupational injury during afternoon shifts was 6% lower than that during morning shifts. The same kind of calculation showed that the risk of occupational injury during night shifts was 15% lower than during morning shifts...