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The Shift Length Experiment: What We Know About 8-, 10-, and 12-Hour Shifts in Policing
The Shift Length Experiment: What We Know About 8-, 10-, and 12-Hour Shifts in Policing
Publication year:
2011
| Cataloged on:
Mar. 21, 2012
ANNOTATION: This report is necessary reading for any agency looking to change from an 8-hour schedule to either a 10- or 12-hour schedule due in part to achieve reduced budgets. Results are reported for: significant findings--quality of work life (QWL), sleep amount, sleepiness/fatigue (subjective), alertness, and overtime worked; and non-significant findings—work performance and safety, health and stress, quality of personal life, sleep quality, fatigue (objective), and sleep disorder, and off-duty employment. This report also explains what we know about compressed workweeks in law enforcement compared to other industries—performance (e.g., self-initiated activities and effort, quality of service, communication, and cognitive performance), safety, health, quality of life, fatigue, sleep, and alertness, overtime and off-duty employment, and other outcomes. Findings show that: 10-hour shifts have some advantages over 8-hour shifts; the benefits of 10-hour shifts are not seen in 12-hour shifts; and 12-hour shifts may result in critical safety problems.
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