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, and suicide (interdisciplinary approach by specialists in medical, psychological, and social science fields), epidemiological studies (occupational cohorts, workplace interventions), and laboratory experiments (physiological responses to cardiovascular workloads, indicators of cardiorespiratory fitness). RECORDS also disseminates the latest information on overwork and preventive measures for it to the rest of the world via JNIOSH homepage.
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| Storage of copied workers' compensation claims for overworkrelated cerebrovascular/cardiovascular diseases and mental disorders. | Workplace intervention studies exploring the preventive measures against overwork-related disorders. |
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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 long work hours. |
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| JNIOSH cohort study investigating the prospective association between work/rest and worker health. | 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 |
| Takeshi Sasaki | Occupational epidemiology, Workers' mental health | |
| Tomohide Kubo | Work-related fatigue and sleep, Occupational health psychology, Work science | |
| Shuuhei Izawa | Psychoneuroendocrinoimmunology, Occupational health psychology, Job stress | |
| Xinxin Liu | Occupational physiology, Ergonomics, Applied health sciences and physiological anthropology | |
| Tomoaki Matsuo | Physical fitness and physical activity | |
| Hiroki Ikeda | Sleep psychology, Occupational health | |
| Rina So | Physical fitness, Metabolic syndrome | |
| Shun Matsumoto | Occupational health, Health science | |
| Yuki Sato | Public health, Epidemiology, Preventive medicine | |
| Yuki Nishimura | Physiological anthropology, Psychophysiology | |
| Keita Kiuchi | Industrial and organizational psychology, Clinical psychology | |
| Kazuya Suzuki | Occupational ergonomics | |
| Nobuyuki Motegi | Occupational ergonomics,Science of labour |
Recent Research Themes
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