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RE: Maximum Work Shift Times
To the best of my knowledge, there are no general regulatory standards limiting the number of hours an employee may work. There are Department of Labor limits for teenagers (3 hours on a school day, eighteen in a school week...longer on non-school weeks) and license conditions for nuclear power plant personnel critical to plant safety (I seem to recall that it was no more than 16 hours in any 24, 24 hours in any 48, 72 in any 168).
Rick Edwards, Analyst
The Boeing Company
richard.w.edwards@boeing.com
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> From: Tad Blanchard[SMTP:Tad.M.Blanchard.1@gsfc.nasa.gov]
> Reply To: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 12:57 PM
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> Subject: Maximum Work Shift Times
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> This may have been posted before, but we had a question from one of our
> Radiation Effects Facility staff who runs the Hot Cell. Our exposure
> operations sometimes run for weeks at a time. Does anyone have information
> as to the maximum amount of hours an individual would be allowed to perform
> work without time off for sleep? This may be a Dept of Labor or OSHA thing
> but definitely involves safety and the safe operations of our irradiator.
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> You should reply to me directly at mailto:Tad.M.Blanchard.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
> unless you feel the information would be useful to the entire RADSAFE list.
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Tad Blanchard NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
> Sr Health Physics Tech Code 205.9, Greenbelt, MD 20771
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