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BEST No. 1/2000. Shiftwork and Health BEST No. 1/2000. Shiftwork and Health

Shiftwork and other forms of working at unusual hours, and especially working at night, have always raised some health concerns. Shiftworkers, their employers, and governments responsible for health and safety legislation, are rightly interested in some serious questions about shiftwork and health:

• does shiftwork damage health?

• in what health areas does it carry this risk?

• are the short-term and long-term effects different?

• can occupational doctors and nurses monitor and reduce these effects?

• can shiftworkers themselves reduce these effects?

This issue of BEST aims to provide help and guidance in this complex area.

Work's Worse for Women

This article presents information on high risks women face from job-related stress, musculoskeletal injuries, violence and other hazards. They note these risks will increase when women move in to jobs traditionally done my men, like construction, and presents some ways to deal with these.

Feminist vision for a just Europe. A report of the WIDE Annual Conference 2008

Increasingly finance-led development, growing inequality and deepening ecological crisis makes itcritical that European women working in development ensure that Europe contributes responsibly to the creation of a new, just and peaceful world order. The WIDE Annual Conference reflected on what role feminists and networks such as WIDE need to play in this process. The focus was on existing European policies for decent work and living conditions for women worldwide in a context of globalisation, feminisation and informalisation of labour, migration and changing aid structures.

Key feminist concerns regarding core labor standards, decent work and corporate social responsibility

This paper aims to discuss the gendered nature of labor standards and core labor standards, decent work, as well as voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR), to highlight the implications for women workers in developing countries. Part 1 deals mainly with the definitions and general discussions around these issues, while Part 2 focuses on its gender implications. The paper is mainly a study of the available literature within academia as well as relevant official documents and material from non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

Technical recommendations for monitoring individuals occupationally exposed to external radiation

The purpose of these technical recommendations is

• to provide guidance on those aspects of the implementation of the European Union Parliament and Council Directives (e.g. Council Directive 96/29/EURATOM) which are directly related to individual monitoring of external radiation, and
• to encourage harmonisation regarding individual monitoring of external radiation.

The technical recommendations aim primarily at the management and staff of European individual monitoring services, but it is also useful for manufacturers, laboratories supplying type testing services and for national approval authorities trying to harmonise approval procedures.

These technical recommendations for monitoring individuals occupationally exposed to external radiation cover

• objectives and aims of individual monitoring for external radiation
• dosimetry concepts
• assessment of uncertainty
• accuracy requirements
• calibration, type-testing and performance testing
• approval procedures
• quality assurance and quality control and
• dose record keeping.

Furthermore, special attention is paid to wider energy ranges for the use of personal dosemeters, the use of active personal dosemeters, data protection as well as the basis for criteria and procedures for mutual recognition within the EU of approved dosimetry services.

Father friendly workplaces

For work and family policies to be successful, policies need to be tailored to meet the needs of men as well as women, and the workplace culture should be accepting of men in their role as fathers. This website provides information and some measures that might be considered by organisations seeking to create a father-friendly workplace.