Thursday, March 2, 2006
Concurrent Sessions: 1:45 - 3:00 p.m.

Bryan Vila, PhD, Washington, State University, Spokane, WA Predicting and responding to potentially disastrous events often requires people to make critical decisions in fast-paced, low-information work situations that provide little opportunity for sleep over long periods of time. Sleep loss undermines human performance and decision-making by impairing the parts of the brain necessary for clear thinking, problem solving, and making complex moral choices. The consequences of failing to manage fatigue arising from sleep loss in these high-risk situations may therefore be catastrophic. Dr. Vila will discuss the impact of fatigue on performance during both pre-event (e.g., intelligence analysis or storm prediction) and trans-event (e.g., crisis management or first response) activities. He will propose approaches for managing fatigue risks in these situations based on current knowledge and will outline gaps in our understanding of this important problem.

Occupational Health Psychology: European and North American Perspectives (Special Lunch Session) – Ashe Auditorium (University of Miami)

Keith James, PhD, Portland State University, Portland, OR This special luncheon celebrates the founding of the Society for Occupational Health Psychology (SOHP). SOHP is a new professional organization for Occupational Health Psychology (OHP) researchers, practitioners, and students. An award for the best OHP

Paper will be given at the luncheon. Three speakers will outline the development, status, and future prospects of OHP in Europe, North America, and the world. Stavroula Leka, PhD, from the University of Nottingham and the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology will provide a European perspective. Lois Tetrick, PhD, George Mason University I/O Program Chair, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology editor, and a charter member and founding officer of SOHP, will provide a North American view, and also present the award for Best

Paper in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. Autumn Krauss, a recent OHP Ph.D. and currently an Assessment Scientist with Unicru, Inc., will speak to the experience of OHP doctoral training and the prospects for new OHP professionals. Finally, Leslie Hammer from Portland State University and the founding President of SOHP will describe the vision for the new organization and outline the goals and plans for it.

Chair: David E. LeGrande, MA, Communications Workers of America, Washington, DC

• Work organization, physical ergonomics and the incidence of worker occupational stress and musculoskeletal health symptoms and disorders David E. LeGrande, MA, Communications Workers of America, Washington, DC

• The impact of long working hours and inadequate staffing on nurses' safety and health Ann Converso, RN, United American Nurses

• Reducing occupational stress in a public school setting: a pilot program Dorothy Wigmore, MS, CIH, Consultant to the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO

Chair: Pascale Carayon, PhD, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI

• Quality of working life and turnover: the development of a universal turnover model Christian Korunka, PhD, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

• Call center work: psychosocial risk factors and neck pain Christine Ann Sprigg, MSc, University of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK

• Alleviating stress in the information technology workforce: supervisor best practices Lisa M. Germano, MS, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA

• Work place conceptualization of psychosocial working environment related issues in knowledge work Helge Hvid, PhD, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

Chair: Heather Roberts-Fox, PhD, Towson University, Towson, MD

• Future training needs to address the problem of work related psychosocial stressors Peter L. Schnall, MD, University of California – Irvine, Irvine, CA

• International expansion of education and training in occupational health psychology Stavroula Leka, PhD, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

• Evaluation of the use of E-learning to support education in occupational health psychology: a case study Stavroula Leka, PhD, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

• Do academics and practitioners agree on occupational health psychology priorities? Robert R. Sinclair, PhD, Portland State University, Portland, OR

Chair: Margaret Heisler, National Institute of Justice, Washington, DC

• The BCOPS study: police stress and health John M. Violanti, PhD, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

• Preliminary results from a prospective study of police stress, sleep, and fatigue Thomas C. Neylan, MD, San Francisco Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA

• Reversing the vicious cycle of interactions between police officer fatigue, stress and health Bryan Vila, PhD, Washington State University, Spokane, WA

Chair: Julian I. Barling, PhD, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

• Organizational culture, working conditions, and quality/safety of patient care Nicholas D. Warren, ScD, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT

• Healthy organizational culture (HOC) as a predictor of workplace productivity and individual health John Kenneth Yardley, PhD, Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada

• Health and well-being of employees and the company's health policy Marije S. Evers, MSc, TNO Work and Employment, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands

• Building trust and promoting health in the Swedish public sector Kerstin S. Isaksson, PhD, National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm, Sweden

Chair: Gwenith G. Fisher, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Discussant: Michelle M. Robertson, PhD, CPE, Liberty Mutual, Hopkinton, MA

• Methodological issues in using archival data use to conduct occupational stress and health research to study older workers Gwenith G. Fisher, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

• Anticipating retirement: the roles of health, perceived control and optimism in important life domains Janet L. Barnes-Farrell, PhD, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

• Using multiple sources of archival data in aging research James W. Grosch, PhD, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH

• A longitudinal investigation of job characteristics and health Carrie A. Bulger, PhD, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT

Chair: Launa G. Mallett, PhD, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Pittsburgh, PA

• Mediators and moderators of a work reorganisation intervention: quasi-experimental findings Frank W. Bond, PhD, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, UK

• Success factors of teleworking in the public sector Michael Ertel, MA, Federal Institute for Occupational Safety & Health, Berlin, Germany

• Evaluating the impact of participant appraisal on intervention outcomes Karina M. Nielsen, PhD, National Institute of Occupational Health, Copenhagen, Denmark

• The effects of stress management intervention programs: a systematic review Katherine B. McPadden, PhD(Cand), Baruch College, New York, NY

Chair: Harris Allen, PhD, Harris Allen Group, LLC, Brookline, MA Discussant: Claire C. Caruso, PhD, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH

• The impact of long workhours on employee health and productivity-a case study Harris Allen, PhD, Harris Allen Group, LLC, Brookline, MA

• Issues for the ITEC study of long workhour impact: a critique Darius Sivin, PhD, United Auto Workers, Detroit, MI

• Is there a cumulative impact from long workhours on health? Ted Scharf, PhD, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH

• The impact of long workhours from an employer's perspective Thomas Slavin, MS, International Truck & Engine Corporation, Chicago, IL