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7 strategies to battle the health effects of shift work**Fox, Harriet, 2017**Correctional Officer Overtime Accrual, Payment, and Work Cycles**Texas Department of Criminal Justice, 2017**28-day work schedule’s days are numbered**Tennessee Department of Corrections, 2017**Overtime Work Hours, Health Behaviors and Health Outcomes for Correctional Officers: An Examination of Moderated Effects**Tubbs, Diana C., 2016**This study investigated whether the effect of healthy behaviors on health and wellness outcomes changed, depending on how much overtime work COs engaged in.Work Cycles and Compensable Hours of Work**Texas Department of Criminal Justice, 2014**Staff Alternative Work Schedule**South Dakota Department of Corrections, 2014**The Department of Corrections (DOC) encourages supervisors to accommodate employees' scheduling requests through an alternative work schedule when possible.The Shift Length Experiment: What We Know about 8-, 10-, and 12-hour Shifts in Policing**Police Foundation, 2014**The Police Foundation experiment was designed to test the impacts of three shift lengths (8-, 10-, and 12-hour) on performance, health, safety, quality of life, sleep, fatigue, alertness, off-duty employment, and overtime among police.Document ID: 02696310-Hour Shifts Offer Cost Savings and Other Benefits to Law Enforcement Agencies**National Institute of Justice, 2012**Sleep Disorders, Work Shifts and Officer Wellness**Pearsall, Beth, 2012**The impact of sleep and work schedules on law enforcement officers' health and safety are reported.Shifts, Extended Work Hours, and Fatigue: An Assessment of Health and Personal Risks for Police Officers**Violanti, John M., 2012**The primary purpose of this investigation was to examine police shift work exposure and the association of such exposure with adverse health outcomes such as disease, stress and depression.The Impact of Shift Length in Policing on performance, Health, Quality of Life, Sleep, Fatigue, and Extra-Duty Employment**Amendola, Karen L., et al., 2011**In this report, we present data on the prevalence of compressed workweeks (CWWs) in American law enforcement in recent years and provide results from the first known comprehensive randomized experiment exploring the effects of shift length (8- vs. 10- vs. 12-hours) on work performance, safety, health, quality of life, sleep, fatigue, off-duty employment, and overtime usage among police officers. Return to top

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