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As sleep is considered an important influencing factor on human fatigue, the correlation between sleep quality and fatigue was investigated. Secondly, the impact of the safety climate on the attitude towards reporting events was examined. One hundred and six German-speaking pilots participated in an online survey. The results showed a high correlation between a poor sleep quality and fatigue (r = 0.67) and a high correlation between fatigue and acute fatigue symptoms (r = 0.68). The subjective ratings of the safety climate within an organization correlated with the attitude to report human error related events (r = 0.58) and correlated with the attitude to report fatigue related events (r = 0.33). Further research should investigate the impact of mitigation measures on acute fatigue symptoms.
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Sieberichs, S., Kluge, A. (2016). Good Sleep Quality and Ways to Control Fatigue Risks in Aviation—An Empirical Study with Commercial Airline Pilots. In: Goonetilleke, R., Karwowski, W. (eds) Advances in Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 489. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41694-6_20
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