The relation between shift work, sleepiness, fatigue and accidents in Iranian industrial mining group workers

Industrial Health

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 134-138

  Halvani, Gholam Hossein ^a   Zare, Mohsen ^a   Mirmohammadi, Seyed Jalil ^a  

^a SHAHID SADOUGHI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Accidents; Fatigue; Mining; Shift work; Sleepiness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SHIFT WORKER; SOMNOLENCE; WORKING TIME;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSALITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMPLOYMENT; FATIGUE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 65449189578     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.47.134     Document Type: Article

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