Open AccessThe effects of rest breaks, work shift start time, and sleep on the onset of severe injury among workers in the People’s Republic of China
Author(s) -
David A. Lombardi,
Kezhi Jin,
Theodore K. Courtney,
Anna Arlinghaus,
Simon Folkard,
Yan Liang,
Melissa J. Perry
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of work, environment and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.621
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1795-990X
pISSN - 0355-3140
DOI - 10.5271/sjweh.3395
Subject(s) - alertness , rest (music) , shift work , work (physics) , medicine , duration (music) , physical therapy , injury prevention , occupational safety and health , demography , poison control , psychology , emergency medicine , psychiatry , engineering , mechanical engineering , art , literature , pathology , sociology
The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of the duration and timing of rest breaks on traumatic injury risk across a shift in a relatively large sample of hospitalized workers with severe work-related hand injury in the People's Republic of China (PRC).