Research Center for Overwork-Related Disorders
National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Japan
In accordance with the Act promoting measures to prevent death and injury from overwork, the Research Center for Overwork-Related Disorders (RECORDs) has been conducting empirical research and disseminating information on overwork-related disorders since April 2015. RECORDs carries out analyses of workers' compensation claims for overwork-related cerebrovascular/cardiovascular diseases and mental disorders including suicide (interdisciplinary approach by specialists in medical, psychological, and social science fields), epidemiological studies (occupational cohorts, workplace interventions), laboratory experiments (physiological responses to cardiovascular workloads, indicators of cardiorespiratory fitness), and preventive measures implementation. RECORDs also disseminates the latest information on overwork and preventive measures for it to the rest of the world via the portal site.
Overview of Research at the Research Center for Overwork-Related Disorders (RECORDs)
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| Publication of the results of analyses of workers’ compensation claims for overwork-related deaths and disorders. | Experiments to examine cardiovascular responses to simulated driving. |
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| Workplace intervention studies exploring the preventive measures against overwork-related disorders. | Experiments to determine validated indicators of cardiorespiratory fitness. |
Members
| Official position | Name | Field of study |
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| Director | Masaya Takahashi | Occupational sleep medicine |
| Acting director | Toru Yoshikawa | Global health, Occupational medicine, Occupational safety and health |
| Takeshi Sasaki | Occupational epidemiology, Workers' mental health | |
| Tomohide Kubo | Work-related fatigue and sleep, Occupational health psychology, Work science | |
| Shuhei Izawa | Psychoneuroendocrinoimmunology, Occupational health psychology, Job stress | |
| Xinxin Liu | Occupational physiology, Ergonomics | |
| Tomoaki Matsuo | Worker’s fitness and physical activity | |
| Hiroki Ikeda | Somnology | |
| Rina So | Worker’s fitness and physical activity, Health science | |
| Shun Matsumoto | Occupational health, Ergonomics, Health science | |
| Yuki Sato | Epidemiology, Preventive medicine | |
| Yuki Nishimura | Physiological anthropology, Psychophysiology | |
| Takuhiro Takada | Social psychology, Occupational health | |
| Kazuya Suzuki | Industrial-organizational psychology, Occupational ergonomics, Science of labour | |
| Nobuyuki Motegi | Human factors and ergonomics, Science of labour, Occupational ergonomics |
Recent Research Themes
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