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Mental health and automation: remarks on a case study in the railroad industry

This article focuses on some relations between mental health and current technical, organganizaizational, and contextual changes in work. The paper presents some features of a case study, examining the impacts of the work situation in a railroad company on traffic controllers and conductors of a computorized, automatedded system. The article also discusses the implications for the safety of the system as a whole, including passengers.

Mental Health; Railroads; Automation; Worker's Health


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