Work environment, overtime and sleep among offshore personnel

Overtime Work Dual Job Holding and Taxation

Work, eat and sleep: towards a healthy ageing at work program offshore

BACKGROUND Health management tools need to be developed to foster healthy ageing at work and sustain employability of ageing work-forces. The objectives of this study were to 1) perform a needs assessment to identify the needs of offshore workers in the Dutch Continental Shelf with regard to healthy ageing at work and 2) to define suitable program objectives for a future healthy ageing at work ...

Effect of overtime work and insufficient sleep on postural sway in information-technology workers.

In Japan, death from overwork (“karoshi” in Japanese) is the focus of social concern. Extremely long work hours and deprivation of sleep exert vital exhaustion and mood changes, resulting in disease conditions such as depression and ischemic heart disease . As the prevention of diseases caused by heavy overtime schedules is a live issue in Japan, decisive and objective indicators are necessary ...

Overtime work, insufficient sleep, and risk of non-fatal acute myocardial infarction in Japanese men.

OBJECTIVES To examine the relation between working hours and hours of sleep and the risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), with special reference to the joint effect of these two factors. METHOD Case-control study in Japan. Cases were 260 men aged 40-79 admitted to hospitals with AMI during 1996-8. Controls were 445 men free from AMI matched for age and residence who were recruited from t...

Overtime Work as a Signaling Device

This paper adds to the various reasons for a worker’s supply of overtime hours by focusing on forward-looking labor supply, and provides an explanation for the empirically proven relationship between overtime and positive future outcomes. We suggest an internal signaling model, in which a worker signals his value to the employer by supplying unpaid overtime. The possible benefits from signaling...