DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT RESEARCH COMMITTEE 2004 REVIEW OF RESEARCH UNITS AND CENTRES (original) (raw)
Related papers
INDUSTRIAL HEALTH, 2015
Youth are vulnerable to sleep loss and fatigue due to biological, social and psychological factors. However, there are few studies addressing the risk that sleep loss and fatigue pose for youth in the workplace. The aim of this study was to explore work health and safety (WHS) issues for young workers and develop strategies and solutions for improved WHS outcomes, with a focus on issues related to fatigue, using a mixedmethod, multi-stage approach. Participants either completed a survey (n=212) or took part in focus groups (n=115) addressing WHS for young workers, or attended a Future Inquiry Workshop (n=29) where strategies for improving youth WHS were developed.
Counselling at Work, 2004
This paper focuses on the specific relevance of workplace risk assessments to help educate and inform all personnel, especially managers, human resources, health, safety and welfare professionals. The paper includes a model of organisational stress highlighting the relationship between potential work-related stress hazards, individual and organisational symptoms of stress, negative outcomes and financial costs (Palmer et al, 2003 1,2 ). The key components of this model relate directly to the Health and Safety Executive publication (HSE, 2001 3 ) that centres on employers taking work-related stress seriously and actively working to improve and maintain employee health and wellbeing. This article also refers to the revised HSE Management Standards launched in November 2004. a model of work stress
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 2014
This study examined the role of schools' psychosocial safety climate (PSC) in teachers' psychological outcomes. We proposed that PSC would moderate the effects of teachers' daily job demands on their fatigue and work engagement, and also the effects of teachers' daily recovery on fatigue and engagement. Sixty-one Australian school teachers completed a diary that was repeated three times over the course of approximately 8 months. Each diary ran for five consecutive days, measuring daily self-reports of job demands, recovery, fatigue, and engagement (N = 915 data points), while perceived PSC was measured once per diary. Multilevel analyses indicated that PSC moderated the relationships between job demands and fatigue, as well as job demands and engagement. This suggests that perceived PSC could act as a buffer against deleterious impacts of daily job demands. PSC also moderated the relationships between recovery and fatigue, and recovery and engagement. This indicates that higher levels of perceived PSC in schools could amplify the benefits of daily recovery for teachers. PSC also exerted a main effect on both fatigue and engagement. These results offer insight into the mechanisms by which PSC may act as a buffer to protect worker mental health, and highlight the importance for school management to promote PSC within their organization.
Reducing Worker Fatigue to Create a Healthy Work Environment
AACN Advanced Critical Care, 2014
R ecent research about fatigue in health care has motivated nurses and hospital administrators to look at ways to manage the problem. This column examines a few relatively recent studies and alerts about the problem of fatigue. 1-5 Defining Fatigue and Its Implications Ironically, Ben Franklin, founder of our nation's first hospital, Pennsylvania Hospital, identified fatigue as a common health complaint. 6 However, fatigue is one of the most difficult terms to define, and it is a symptom of many different conditions. Fatigue is generally defined as a feeling of lack of energy. It is not the same as sleepiness, but the desire to sleep may accompany fatigue. 2 The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine's (ACOEM's) Task Force on Fatigue Risk Management provided us with an extensive review of fatigue and how we can reduce its risk to provide a balanced, healthy work environment. 2 Evidence suggests that shift work associated with extended hours increases the risk for fatigue. Moreover, fatigue risk factors increase the likelihood of apathy, which is common in today's shift workers, interfering with their productivity and performance. 2 However, hours-of-service is not the only contributing factor that must be addressed. We must also consider workers' time spent sleeping at home and the availability of rest at work. The Joint Commission reviewed the impact of fatigue on health care workers as well as factors that contribute to fatigue and the inherent increased risk to patients, and made important evidence-based recommendations in a Sentinel Event Alert 1 published in December 2011. The alert presented clear evidence that nurses who work shifts of 12.5 hours or longer are at greater risk for errors and occupational injuries. 1 This alert emphasizes the importance of developing evidence-based practice surrounding the issue of worker fatigue with those working 12.5 hours, hours of sleep, and truly addressing the culture surrounding this issue.