Word: shiftwork
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...they persuade the highly skilled and well educated, who already have the upper hand in today's tight labor market, to work those odd hours? While devising new ways to attract and hold all types of employees, managers also need to decrease the huge costs associated with off-hours shiftwork. Industrial and other accidents resulting from exhaustion already cost U.S. industry and society over $77 billion a year. One of the most immediate effects is a growing demand on companies to show greater flexibility and creativity in designing jobs. Richard Coleman, author of The 24 Hour Business and president...
...author of The Twenty-Four-Hour Society, observes that the firms that have chosen to "push it to the max get hit later by the hidden problem of fatigue, burnout and stress." Sometimes the results can be disastrous. According to Moore-Ede, industrial deaths and injuries related to shiftwork cost the U.S. economy as much as $1.5 billion a year, and airplane crashes and plant explosions another $5 billion. Truck drivers alone are involved in fatigue-related accidents that cost $5 billion annually. Disasters and accidents aside, human fatigue costs the U.S. economy an estimated $6 billion in health costs...
...Coburn, publisher of the newsletter ShiftWork Alert, says American companies have gradually become more aware of the problems inherent in altering human circadian rhythms. Yet he observes that U.S. job culture still has not woken up, so to speak, to the need for more adaptation. Doctors, he notes, enter residency programs expected to work 36 hours in two days, having been taught almost nothing about how to sleep during the day or how to use naps to offset the effects of exhaustion. "The macho thing is very significant," he says. "Those who have been living with this for so long...
Peggy Westfall-Lake, a consultant and author of Shiftwork Safety and Performance, is not about to let any accidents happen at the organization where she works, Williams, an Oklahoma-based energy and communications company. She firmly believes education and "fatigue-countermeasure training" can prevent the problems and costs caused by tiredness...
| 1 |