The night shift can damage your health

Beware excessive strain

With the loss of sleep and overwork, the body is at a low point that causes excessive fatigue and sleepiness.

San Pedro Sula. People working in rotating shifts or night may suffer stress and changes in their nervous system.

The psychologist Manuel Orellana says that one of the manifestations of this problem is the excessive fatigue, mood changes and errors in the handling of automobiles or machinery.

"A person who works in these shifts should acondicionársele slowly because they may have problems in their nervous system," explains.

In some companies are working on days four days and four night of day, but the employee must give him at least two days rest for the body to assimilate the changes.

"No person may work more than 24 hours without sleep. At that time exceeded, can suffer mental exhaustion and nervous disorders, "she says. In this case, the employee's temperament changed and may react aggressively. In addition, their performance is not the best and are exposed to accidents.

Change
It's hard to concentrate when a person is too tired and this increases the possibility of errors or accidents. This situation could pose a risk to workers and the public. The stress of shift work can also aggravate health conditions such as heart disease or digestive disorders. It's hard enough sleep when a person works at night. His dream is usually shorter and less refreshing or satisfying.

Condition
Another problem is that sometimes work at night are not well renumbered, causing more disappointment at the worker. Besides creating problems in the household, "does not work quiet because you're thinking about is how his family," he says.
On the other hand, can not share important moments in the lives of their relatives. The findings of various international studies show that workers in night shifts five years of life lost for every fifteen workday.

Research
According to the study, the functions of the brain and body become slower during the night and dawn.

 

Stress low productivity

Among colleagues, this disease leads to discrepancies between employees and grouchy

A person who suffers from stress often suffer from insomnia and has no desire to go to work.

San Pedro Sula. Most of the people who work have suffered from job stress.

Sometimes, the employee is too pressured, which can trigger stress and cause a bad atmosphere.

The psychologist Jaime Ponce says that this condition causes symptoms that may affect the normal life and diminish the quality of life, so it is necessary to control it.

Some of the symptoms are: lack of clarity of ideas, difficulty making decisions and bad temper.

Plus: impact on sleep and fatigue and general disorder in eating habits.
All these symptoms are nothing more than your body's response to stress.
Situations protracted this evil can mean real damage to health.
Performance
There are several causes of stress: heavy workload in relation to the time available to do it.
Interpersonal relations; uncertainty that generates a temporary contract and dissatisfaction with pay.

The long working hours reflecting a decrease of leisure time and rest cause higher levels of stress. The best solutions are rest and holidays.

Advice
Try to take a cup of tea regularly, which helps relax the body and mind. Infusions valerian, chamomile or lime.

To avoid feeling overwhelmed or overloaded with work, keep a plan to organize its work and time that will develop.

 

Implement safety standards

To ensure the welfare of their employees, not run risks

People who work with chemicals are at risk if they are not protected.

San Pedro Sula. There are new rules that you can implement in your company and to help improve the safe handling of risks.

These measures are associated with processes that use, store, manufacture, treat or move highly hazardous chemicals in the workplace.

Control Risk
One of the standards used today is the Osha 18801-2007, which consists of management systems for the prevention of occupational hazards. The OSHA standards applies primarily to manufacturing industries, particularly industries of chemicals, transport equipment and metal products manufacturing.

Other sectors affected are associated with liquid natural gas, storage of agricultural products, food processing, electrical services, gas and healthcare, and wholesale trade. The rule also covers manufacturers of pyrotechnics and explosives.

It also establishes special provisions for contractors working on sites covered by it. The rule also requires written operating procedures, training and employee participation, safety assessments before making a team function, among other demands.
 

A head that left unchecked affects his companions

Do not let harassment


The pressures towards the worker are not good, that prevents the performance of its work properly.

San Pedro Sula. That an employee feels comfortable in the company or organization does not always have to do with money.

In recent times there is talk of mobbing much work, this is a moral or psychological harassment at work, which produces depression and anxiety in people who suffer it, caused by verbal assaults and derogatory behaviour of superiors, but also can help This fellow at the same level, explains Ernesto Espinoza degree in psychology.

Employees of an organization may be supervised by managers who still think that human beings have a natural resentment work and that because of this apathy, we need to bind the person, and direct threats of punishment to work, said Espinoza .

Features
Staying daily in a hostile environment produces stress that weakens the victim psychologically, it feels that is worth nothing, loses self-doubt about their abilities, feels guilty of the situation and ends up being unable to go to their work and sought time off work.

You can identify if you are going through a situation of these or perhaps a colleague of his, such as when his superior so much harassed loses the possibility of communication from the environment, the imposition of silence, the verbal attack without possibility of defense, threats, mockery, isolation from the rest of the companions he says.

Avoid these situations, put the cards on the table and talk with their manager and come to an agreement not to continue with this harassment and improve communication between the two.

Control
It is important to train leaders so they can identify potential conflicts and be able to reconciliarce with their employees.

 

The retirement is a right of every worker

IHSS provides three types of pensions


Víctor Martínez, head of the pension fund, said that "if the prices are lower, the pension will be minimal."

San Pedro Sula. Members of the Honduran Social Security Institute, IHSS, enjoy invalidity pension, old age or survival.

The charge of this office, Víctor Martínez, confirmed that the IHSS provides these three forms of pensions for its members as a way to alleviate their situation during that period. "We rely on contributions from individuals. It takes as its basis the minimum wage and a maximum. The worker quoted by 1%, equivalent to 48 lempiras on the minimum wage, the employer pays twice, 96 lempiras day, changing when the employee earns more than the minimum, "he says.

He explained that to establish the old age pension is due to make a calculation and accredit 180 contributions for 15 years at work.
"The ceiling is 4800 lempiras for calculating pensions, which does not pass 80 percent. That formula is used in all three forms of pensions, "he says. The person enters the pension when they turn 65 and have retired from the company where she works. According to article 52, "policyholders will be entitled to old-age pension, according to the conditions set out in regulation."

Legal
According to the Social Security Act, Section IV, Article 48 "in case of disability, the insured is entitled to a pension."
It indicates that when an employee because of a common illness or accident, is permanently incapacitated, is entitled to a pension.

To calculate the invalidity pension is this way: if it is due to an illness, you must prove 36 quotations in the six years prior to his disability.

If the disability is due to an accident, eight quotations are presented in two previous years.

Pariente
If the insured dies contributor, their families can receive pensions. Article 53 stipulates: "In case of death of the insured, the institute will grant pensions to widows and children under 14 years in some cases where children are studying, is an extension of the pension until the age of 18" .