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Shift workers' health and assessing risk of violence
Daniel Hackam, associate professor at Western University in Canada, explains how shift patterns can have a detrimental effect on the vascular health of workers.
Also this week Seena Fazel, Wellcome Trust senior research fellow in clinical science at the University of Oxford, queries the predictive value of the risk assessment tools routinely used to predict violent behaviour
See also;
Shift work and vascular events
Use of risk assessment instruments to predict violence and antisocial behaviour in 73 samples involving 24 827 people
Audio chapters:
Risk assessments for violent behaviour: 0:25
Shift workers' health: 6:32
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