Sleepiness of Occupational Drivers
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Sleepiness of occupational drivers.
Drowsiness and sleeping at the wheel are now identified as the reasons behind fatal crashes and highway accidents caused by occupational drivers. For many years, fatigue has been associated to risk of accidents but the causes of this symptom were unclear. Extensive or nocturnal driving was associated to accidents but few reports differentiated fatigue from sleepiness. In the early nineties, epi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Industrial Health
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0019-8366,1880-8026
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.43.30