Can organisational safety climate and occupational stress predict work-related driver fatigue?

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 418-426

  Strahan, Clint ^a   Watson, Barry ^a   Lennonb, Alexia ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Occupational safety; Occupational stress; Safety climate; Work related driving

Indexed keywords

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; ROADS AND STREETS; SURVEYS;

GROUP DIFFERENCES; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; OCCUPATIONAL STRESS; SAFETY BEHAVIOURS; SAFETY CLIMATE; WORK-RELATED DRIVINGS; WORK-RELATED INJURIES;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

EID: 53549109698     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trf.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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