Distribution of rest days in 12 hour shift systems: Impacts on health, wellbeing, and on shift alertness

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 206-214

  Tucker, Philip ^a   Smith, Lawrence ^b   Macdonald, Ian ^a   Folkard, Simon ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health; Safety; Shift systems

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATIGUE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; NIGHT SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SHIFT WORKER; SLEEP; WELLBEING; WORK SCHEDULE;

EID: 0032955082     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.56.3.206     Document Type: Article

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