Working hours and mental and physical fatigue in Japanese workers
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Working hours and mental and physical fatigue in Japanese workers.
BACKGROUND Establishing a threshold number of working hours is very important when making recommendations to protect people from the potentially harmful health effects caused by long working hours. AIM To clarify the influence of working hours on both mental and physical symptoms of fatigue and use the data obtained to determine permissible working hours. METHODS Cross-sectional survey of m...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational Medicine
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0962-7480,1471-8405
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqm047