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A Preliminary Review of Fatigue Among Rail Staff

Fatigue is a severe problem in the rail industry, which may jeopardize train crew's health and safety. Nonetheless, a preliminary review of all empirical evidence for train crew fatigue is still lacking. The aim of the present paper is, therefore, to provide a preliminary description of occupat...

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Published in:Frontiers in psychology 2018-05, Vol.9, p.634-634
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