Background: Fatigue in the workers reduces the individual's resistance and eventually leads to the lower performance, increased errors and accidents. This study assessed the fatigue, mental workload and the correlation between them, in operating room personnel of Hamadan hospitals, Iran. Materials and Methods: In a descriptive study, the mental workload and its association with fatigue in oper...

BACKGROUND To prolong sustainable healthy working lives of construction workers, a worksite prevention program was developed which aimed to improve the health and work ability of construction workers. The aim of the current study was to investigate the effectiveness of this program on social support at work, work engagement, physical workload and need for recovery. METHODS Fifteen departments...

Abstract: This paper presents the results of a paired-sample evaluation of the benefits of parallel access volumes (PAVs) and multiple allegiances for reducing logical volume IOSQing delays. A simple back-of-the-envelope technique is provided for estimating the potential performance benefits of moving an existing workload to an IBM 2105 Enterprise Storage Subsystem or other storage subsystem wh...

We propose a novel naturalistic decision support system for complex fault management procedures onboard modern aircraft. Two experiments involving 13 civil pilots are presented. The results show that the system proposed improves pilots’ decision accuracy, decision performance and situation awareness, whilst reducing mental workload and complacency to system advisories.

Reducing cost of material handling has been a big challenge for companies. Flexible manufacturing system employed automated guided vehicles (AGV) to maintain efficiency and flexibility. This paper presents a new non-linear mathematical programming model to group n machines into N loops, to make an efficient configuration for AGV system in Tandem layout. The model minimizes bot...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Determine the effects of high versus moderate workload on sleep physiology and neurobehavioral measures, during sleep restriction (SR) and no sleep restriction (NSR) conditions. DESIGN Ten-night experiment involving cognitive workload and SR manipulations. SETTING Controlled laboratory environment. PARTICIPANTS Sixty-three healthy adults (mean ± standard deviation: 33.2 ±...

Aims This study examined the moderating role of two resources (social support and recognition) in longitudinal relationship between workload bullying behaviours nurses. Design A two-wave (12-month) was conducted. Method French-Canadian nurses (n = 279) completed an online survey (October 2014 October 2015) assessing their perceptions job characteristics within work environment (workload, social...

General practitioners (GPs) in Tayside, with higher weekly surgery workloads, tended to have a greater proportion of return consultations compared with GPs with smaller workloads. By reducing the number of return consultations, GPs could have a notable effect on their workload and alleviate the, oft-quoted, stress induced by the perceived increase in demand for patient care.

background: few studies have examined the relationship between perceived responsibilities by workers and job characteristics and experiences of stress. objective: to examine the relationship between job stress and work responsibilities and job characteristics. methods: we analyzed data from 2737 adults who were labor force participants in the province of alberta, canada. a logistic regression m...