Work schedules, sleep, fatigue, and accidents in the US railroad industry

Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health and Behavior

Volumn 1, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 99-115

  Raslear, Thomas G ^a   Gertler, Judith ^b   DiFiore, Amanda ^b  

^a FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

^b QinetiQ North America   (United States)

Author keywords

accidents; fatigue; railroads; sleep; work schedules

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FATIGUE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RAILWAY EMPLOYEE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SHIFT WORKER; SLEEP PATTERN; WORK SCHEDULE;

EID: 84922628355     PISSN: 21641846     EISSN: 21641862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21641846.2012.748330     Document Type: Article

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