Occupational health services for shift and night workers

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 31-37

  Koller, Margit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Counselling; Health surveillance; Night work; Occupational health service; Recommendations; Shift work

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; COUNSELING; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; NIGHT WORK; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PERIODIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION; SHIFT WORKER; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0030042293     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-6870(95)00045-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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