Work hours, workload, sleep and fatigue in Australian Rail Industry employees

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 202-209

  Dorrian, Jillian ^a   Baulk, Stuart D ^a   Dawson, Drew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Rail industry; Sleep; Work hours; Workload

Indexed keywords

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; NASA;

FATIGUE MANAGEMENT; MEAN AGES; PRIOR WAKES; RAIL INDUSTRY; SLEEP; WORK HOURS; WORK RELATED FATIGUE; WORKLOAD;

SLEEP RESEARCH;

CAFFEINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; EXHAUSTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NASA TLX WORKLOAD SCALE; RAILWAY EMPLOYEE; RATING SCALE; SAMN PERELLI FATIGUE SCALE; SHIFT WORKER; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP TIME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; WAKEFULNESS; WORKING TIME; WORKLOAD;

EID: 78349312620     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2010.06.009     Document Type: Article

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