Bus drivers’ gendered options for managing atypical schedules and its impact on health
Some studies conducted in the sector of land transport of passengers (Cunha & Gil Mata, 2005) have already shown the effects on drivers and their health of a working organization characterized by schedules that are irregular and atypical in what concerns the time of occupation 1. Such conditions are usually referenced by the drivers for their hardness, and have also, incidentally, been confirmed by other studies (Barthe, Quéinnec & Verdier, 2004), that relate this kind of schedules with an effect of dessincronization of the employees psycho-physiological balance. The INSAT (Portuguese acronym for Health and Work Survey) is an instrument that intends to highlight the consequences of past and present working conditions on workers health and well being, having as its main goal the consideration of the factors that are a source of infra-pathological problems. The INSAT, used with a sample of bus drivers in Portugal has revealed a certain similarity between male and female drivers in what concerns the perceived impact of work on their health. This counters the “epidemiological literature, which argues that women complain more and verbalize more (Bardot, Molinié & Juillard, 2005, p.14). The limitations in the use of this instrument, particularly the ones related to not considering the particular conditions of womens activity in typically male work groups, have been circumvented by the use of interviews and activity analysis of female drivers. The consideration of the womens point of view in this study - which is still ongoing - has finally, created conditions for a methodological questioning that goes beyond the gender dimension and extends the field of analysis of the relationship between work and health.
Liliana Cunha Sónia Nogueira Marianne Lacomblez
Centro de Psicologia da Universidade do Porto
国际会议
17th World Congress on Ergonomics(第十七届国际人类工效学大会)
北京
英文
1-6
2009-08-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）