Work Schedules: Shift Work and Long Work Hours

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics 2004, nearly 15 million Americans are working full-time on an irregular schedule scheduled for employers such as night shift, night shift, shift work and so on. According to the 2010 National Health Interview data, nearly 19% of working adults work 48 hours or more per week and over 7% work over 60 hours. All shift work and long work are related to health and safety risks. There is a link to NIOSH publications and other resources on this page, and the schedule of work is strict.

NIOSH 's 5 - minute video provides a letter of recommendation from a real nurse who is willing to share the experience of shift work and long working hours.

The work schedule of the nurse is based on the needs of the patient group. Nurses are required 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in hospitals and nursing homes. Working on shifts, vacations, working hours during breaks is a major challenge for nurse administrators. Today, 75% of hospital nurses are working with a shift of 12 hours. From a management point of view, the 12 hour shift means less shift, only 2 shifts per day, 2 shifts per day. Today, as many nurses can schedule their working hours, they can respond flexibly to family obligations and personal time.

• Flexible work schedule frequently occurs for long working hours, frequent night or night work, weekends and holidays, safety and workers' health and welfare. Advantages and disadvantages of traditional and flexible work schedules should be discussed through active participation of managers and workers. • Longer hours than normal shift will reduce break time and break time for sleep. And it is essential to recover from fatigue. Therefore, due to short sleeping time and break time, people working for a long time must start the next turn without recovering completely from fatigue.

Long working hours are related to abnormal shift times, especially at split / rotation shift, but at least with irregular shift times. This indicates that the employer is arranging for these workers to work longer than normal afternoon work and / or that employees do not care for longer than the afternoon shift. Because the correlation between time and irregular shift work is relatively weak rather than length of time and group / shift work, irregular shift work is more common than part-time shift work / shift work I understand. However, long-term effects are statistically irrelevant if irregular workers are affected by the flexibility of the work schedule. However, due to the flexibility of different types of work scheduling, weekday start and end times may change. This is related to more irregular shift work.