Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Health and safety problems associated with long working hours : a review of the current position

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Health and safety problems associated with long working hours : a review of the current position / Anne Spurgeon, J. Malcolm Harrington, Cary L. Cooper

Sumario: This review has considered the weight of the evidence linkinglong working hours with health problems in the light of the European Community Directive on Working Time. The effects of long hours or overtime work seem to have been seriously neglected in favour of an understandable preoccupation with the problems of shiftworking. The results of those studies which have investigated overtime effects suggest grounds for concern but have also highlighted the complex nature of the relation between long hours and health: mental health disorders, cardiovascular disorders an performance effects. It is clear that the type and severity of any identified effects are unlikely to be universally applicable, but rather will depend on the characteristics and attitudes of each person, the job requirements, and other aspects of the organisation and cultural climate

En: Occupational and environmental medicine. - London and Margate. - Vol. 54, nº 6, June 1997 ; p. 367-375

1. Seguridad e higiene en el trabajo . 2. Ergonomía . 3. Medicina laboral . 4. Enfermedades profesionales . 5. Unión Europea . I. Harrington, J. Malcolm . II. Cooper, Cary L. . III. Título. IV. Título: Occupational and environmental medicine.