Rescheduling a three shift system at a steel rolling mill: Effects of a one hour delay of shift starting times on sleep and alertness in younger and older workers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 677-685

  Rosa, Roger R ^a   Härmä, Mikko ^b   Pulli, Katriina ^b   Mulder, Mirjam ^b   Näsman, Ove ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^c Fundia Wire Corporation   (Finland)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Shift timing; Shiftworker; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIFT WORKER; SLEEP PATTERN; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0029852425     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.53.10.677     Document Type: Article

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