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Seafarers' fatigue: a review of the recent literature
Paul Allen1, Emma Wadsworth, Andy Smith
1Centre for Occupational Health Psychology, School of Psychology Cardiff University, 63 Park Place, Cardiff CF1O 3AS, UK smithap@Cardiff.ac.uk
Abstract:
Fatigue has been noticeably under-researched in the maritime domain compared to other transport sectors. In a review of the literature 11 databases were searched in order to assess recent developments in the field and distil those issues of greatest concern and challenge to the seafaring community. Whilst diversity in the seafaring population has the potential to make global fatigue estimates meaningless, evidence of mis-recorded working hours shows how cultural and commercial pressures are universally shared.
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