Evaluation of a twelve-hour/day shift schedule
Abstract
In April 1985, the operating crews at the Fast Flux Test Facility near Richland, Washington, changed their rotating shift schedule from an 8-hour to a 12-hour a day work schedule. The primary purpose of the change was to reduce the attrition of operators by increasing their job satisfaction. Eighty-four percent of the operators favored the change. A program was established to evaluate the effects on plant performance, operator alertness, attrition, sleep, health, job satisfaction, and off-the-job satisfaction. Preliminary results from that evaluation program indicate that the 12-hour shift schedule is a reasonable alternative to an 8-hour schedule at this facility.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA); Hanford Engineering Development Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 6143176
- Report Number(s):
- HEDL-SA-3563-FP; CONF-8609105-8
ON: DE87014364
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76FF02170
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Annual meeting of the Human Factors Society, Dayton, OH, USA, 30 Sep 1986
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; FFTF REACTOR; REACTOR OPERATORS; WORKING DAYS; EVALUATION; HUMAN FACTORS; PERFORMANCE; SCHEDULES; WORKING CONDITIONS; EPITHERMAL REACTORS; FAST REACTORS; LIQUID METAL COOLED REACTORS; PERSONNEL; REACTORS; RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS; RESEARCH REACTORS; SODIUM COOLED REACTORS; TEST REACTORS; 220600* - Nuclear Reactor Technology- Research, Test & Experimental Reactors; 290200 - Energy Planning & Policy- Economics & Sociology
Citation Formats
Lewis, P M, and Swaim, D J. Evaluation of a twelve-hour/day shift schedule. United States: N. p., 1986.
Web.
Lewis, P M, & Swaim, D J. Evaluation of a twelve-hour/day shift schedule. United States.
Lewis, P M, and Swaim, D J. 1986.
"Evaluation of a twelve-hour/day shift schedule". United States.
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author = {Lewis, P M and Swaim, D J},
abstractNote = {In April 1985, the operating crews at the Fast Flux Test Facility near Richland, Washington, changed their rotating shift schedule from an 8-hour to a 12-hour a day work schedule. The primary purpose of the change was to reduce the attrition of operators by increasing their job satisfaction. Eighty-four percent of the operators favored the change. A program was established to evaluate the effects on plant performance, operator alertness, attrition, sleep, health, job satisfaction, and off-the-job satisfaction. Preliminary results from that evaluation program indicate that the 12-hour shift schedule is a reasonable alternative to an 8-hour schedule at this facility.},
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year = {Wed Jun 18 00:00:00 EDT 1986},
month = {Wed Jun 18 00:00:00 EDT 1986}
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