The University and the labour hire agency provided advice, training and appropriate working arrangements to address issues tied to personal safety, e.g. ID card, emergency telephone contacts, personal alarms, training on how to deal with difficult interactions with people and animals, working hour arrangements, and lifting and carrying census materials.
It's neither something patients like to disclose nor what others expect to hear but the good news is that the adverse effects of fatigue on the workplace can be significantly reduced by understanding employers who are willing to adjust working hours, support alternative arrangements, and have regular consultations about an appropriate workload.
The survey provided information on working arrangements, working hours, work intensity, and well-being.
Besamusca and Tijdens (2015) Content research Collective Agreements Database of the WageIndicator Automated text analysis The minority of agreements include specific wage levels while clauses on social security, working hours and work-family arrangements are included in the majority of cases.
Besamusca and Tijdens (2015) use the Collective Agreements Database from the WageIndicator to retrieve data on collective bargaining, and based on automated text analysis and descriptive statistics, they find that the minority of agreements include specific wage levels, while clauses on social security, working hours and work-family arrangements are included in the majority of cases.
Shift work, arrangement of working hours that differs from the standard daylight working hours (i.e., 8 00 am to 5 00 pm).
Ideally though, we would also like to quantify the relative effects of both TLF arrangements on working hours.
One team addressed poor locum cover arrangements by extending part time working hours funded by the DRT monies.
GP/practice endorsement of the program and encouragement from group facilitators promoted attendance, along with flexibility arrangements including providing sessions outside of working hours.
Arrangements had been made with the employers to allow data collection during working hours.
Interventions have included workforce expansion, the development of more sophisticated rostering arrangements, greater emphasis on clinical handover procedures, and more detailed specifications regarding working hours in industrial agreements.
