Effects of noise, job characteristics and stress on mental health and accidents, injuries and cognitive failures at work

Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics

Volumn 33 1, Issue PART 3, 2011, Pages 486-492

  Smith, Andrew P ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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