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Health & Safety Matters
Deadlines are deadly
New research has confirmed the union view that stress resulting from long working hours and short deadlines can cause heart attacks.
Staff working hard to get a task done on time were six times more likely to have a heart attack in the next 24 hours than their co-workers, according to the Swedish study of 3,500 people.
Researchers found that high demands, competition and conflict in the workplace added to heart attack risk.
"Work-related stressful life events and the risk of myocardial infarction", Jette Möller and others, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, vol 59, pp 23-30, 2005