Abstract: This paper was a literature review of the concept of industrial fatigue. The paper described industrial fatigue as a normal physiological reaction to exertion, lack of sleep, boredom, changes to sleep-wake schedules, or stress; and as weariness, tiredness, exhaustion, or lethargy, which is generally linked to a feeling of lack of energy. Symptoms associated with fatigue were reported as including increased anxiety, decreased short term memory, slowed reaction time, decreased work efficiency, reduced motivational drive, decreased vigilance, increased variability in work performance, increased errors of omission and commission. Its causes were also found to include overtime work, sudden...........
Keywords: Industrial, Fatigue, Workman, Enemy, Great.
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