Abstract Purpose of Review Approximately 25% of employed individuals engage in shift
work, which can substantially alter opportunities for restorative sleep. Being tired on the job …

Throughout the industrialized world, nearly one in five employees works some form of
nontraditional shift. Such shift work is associated with numerous negative health …

The objective of this review was to examine the evidence for the link between fatigue and
safety, especially in transport and occupational settings. For the purposes of this review …

Shift work is highly prevalent in industrialized societies (> 20%) but, when it includes night
work, it has pronounced negative effects on sleep, subjective and physiological sleepiness …

This paper reviews the association between neurobiologically‐based sleepiness/fatigue
and human‐error related accidents. It concludes that fatigue contributes to human error and …

The arguments in favour of introducing shift work clearly depend on productivity and safety
being maintained at an acceptable level. However, the evidence reviewed in this paper …

With increasing economic and social demands, we are rapidly evolving into a 24-h society.
In any urban economy, about 20% of the population are required to work outside the regular …

The European Community Directive on Working Time, which should have been
implemented in member states of the European Community by November 1996, contains …

This paper aims at describing the associations between workhours and psychosocial work
characteristics and reviews the health effects of workhours and the related pathways. The …

Abstract Study Objectives: This study examined the effects of bright light exposure, as
compared to dim light, on daytime subjective sleepiness, incidences of slow eye movements …