Applying the exposome concept to working life health: The EU EPHOR project

Exposures at work have a major impact on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Current risk reduction policies and strategies are informed by existing scientific evidence, which is limited due to the challenges of studying the complex relationship between exposure at work and outside work and health. We define the working life exposome as all...

Workplace innovation: A review and potential future avenues

In this article, we present an overview of European workplace innovation policy, theory, research and practice. In our review, we will first highlight the ways in which different policy, theory, empirical, and practical approaches to workplace innovation diverge and converge. Second, we will outline some potential future avenues for the field of...

Health and prolonging working lives: an advisory report of the Health Council of The Netherlands

Objective This opinion paper summarizes the main findings and recommendations of an advisory report on health and prolonging working life, which was requested by the Dutch Minister of Social Affairs and Employment. Methods The advisory report was compiled by a multidisciplinary committee of ten scientists appointed by the Health Council of The...

Book of abstracts International Workshop on teamworking (IWOT) 22nd edition Leiden September 6-7: teamwork and technology at work

Today’s work faces both disruptive and incremental innovations regards new technology - such as dig-itisation, robotics, nanotechnology, Internet-of-Things, Big Data, and Blockchain, just to mention a few -, and new organisational forms like platforms, networks, project based organisations, and web-based/virtual organisations. These developments...

Bewältigung technologischer und personeller Herausforderungen in der niederländischen Logistikbranche: Die Bedeutung von Workplace Innovation

Die niederländische Logistikbranche hat auf internationaler Ebene eine Vorreiterrolle inne. Sie gilt als extrem produktiv (Van de Ven 2013) und innovativ (World Logistics Performance Index 2018. Dennoch steht der traditionelle, „ergrauende“ Sektor vor einigen großen Heraus-forderungen. Die niederländische Regierung und die Logistikbranche...

Psychosocial work environment and building related symptoms

There is growing evidence that the psychosocial work environment may affect health (Marmot et al. 2006). Nevertheless, these factors are still not commonly taken into account in the studies examining the relations between indoor environmental quality and employee’s health and wellbeing. Several models of work stress have been developed in an...

Can labour contract differences in health and work-related attitudes be explained by quality of working life and job insecurity?

Study aim: We hypothesise that due to a lower quality of working life and higher job insecurity, the health and workrelated attitudes of temporary workers may be less positive compared to permanent workers. Therefore, we aimed to (1) examine differences between contract groups (i.e. permanent contract, temporary contract with prospect of...

Performance and working life of cathodic protection systems for concrete structures

Corrosion of reinforcing steel in concrete structures causes concrete cracking and steel diameter reduction, eventually resulting in loss of safety. Conventional repair means heavy, labour intensive and costly work and the required quality level is under economic pressure. Consequently, conventional repair is short lived in many cases. An...

Labour contracts in the European Union, 2000-2005: Differences among demographic groups and implications for the quality of working life and work satisfaction

Current theorizing holds that organizations may be less motivated to offer good work circumstances to temporary workers because the latter do not constitute the core of the organization. This implies that their quality of working life and work satisfaction could be lower than that of permanent workers. Therefore, it is potentially important to...

Impact of employment contract changes on workers' quality of working life, job insecurity, health and work-related attitudes

Objectives: Changes in employment contracts may impact the quality of working life, job insecurity, health and work-related attitudes. We examined the validity of two partly competing theoretical approaches. Based upon a segmentation approach, we expected no change in scores among stable trajectories, whereas upward trajectories were expected to...

Smart cathodic protection systems

Cathodic protection delivers corrosion protection in concrete structures exposed to aggressive environments, e.g. in de-icing salt and marine climates. Working lives of a large number of CP systems are at least more than 13 years and probably more than 25 years, provided a minimum level of maintenance is applied. This involves routine checks of...

Smart shifts: the trade-off between prodcuvtivity and flexiblity. Balancing Interest 17th International Symposium on Shiftwork and Working Time, 18-22 September 2005, Hoofddorp, the Netherlands: program and abstracts

The pressure on working longer hours per week, per year and over life time is increasing. Do we indeed need to work longer, and harder and at what costs? At the level of the organisation, we need to balance productivity with flexibility and innovation, but also with the employee's need to stay healthy and employable over the life course ...

Robots, working conditions and job content: Opportunities and hindrances for the improvement of the quality of working life

The introduction of robots into workplaces offer opportunities to improve occupational safety, health and job content. In this study 16 case studies of robot work places in 4 companies and a literature survey were performed in order to prepare an instructional publication for the Dutch Labour Inspectorate. It appears that in many cases one fails...