Attitudes and opinions of railway signallers and related staff, using the Rail Ergonomics Questionnaire (REQUEST)

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 230-238

  Ryan, Brendan ^a   Wilson, John R ^a,b   Sharples, Sarah ^a   Clarke, Theresa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c NETWORK RAIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comparisons of roles; Rail human factors; Survey administration and analysis

Indexed keywords

ERGONOMICS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; JOB SATISFACTION; RAILROADS; RAILS;

COMPARISONS OF ROLES; DIFFERENT LAYERS; FRONT-LINE STAFFS; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; RAIL HUMAN FACTORS; SIGNALLING SYSTEMS; SURVEY ADMINISTRATION AND ANALYSIS; SURVEY INSTRUMENTS;

SURVEYS;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RAIL ERGONOMICS QUESTIONNAIRE; RAILWAY EMPLOYEE; STRESS; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE;

EID: 56949108539     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2008.04.010     Document Type: Article

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