The effect of rest breaks on time to injury - a study on work-related ladder-fall injuries in the United States

• Main Authors: Anna Arlinghaus (Author), David A Lombardi (Author), Theodore K Courtney (Author), David C Christiani (Author), Simon Folkard (Author), Melissa J Perry (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health (NOROSH), 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVES: Rest breaks and other work-related temporal factors, such as time spent on task, influence the accumulation of fatigue, and thus impact occupational injury risk. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of rest breaks on "time to injury" (the time between start of wo...