Sharpe, Fiona (2008) The Relationship between Fatigue, Psychological Strain, Morningness, Eveningness, Safety Climate, Violations, Risk-Taking and Human Error. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
The purposes of this research were to examine organisational and individual variables associated with human error and to extend previous research by adding additional variables to the prediction of error. A questionnaire was developed, named Fatigue in Australian Mining and distributed to employees of a coal mine in Central Queensland. The variables under investigation in the current study which have previously been shown to predict human error were fatigue, violations, safety climate and psychological strain. This study extended previous research by adding three new variables (morningness, eveningness, and risk-taking) to a model which significantly predicted error (p < .01). Previous research was also extended by using a mining population, thus improving external validity. The relationship between safety climate, fatigue and everyday error was also under investigation, with results showing that fatigue mediates a relationship between safety climate and everyday error. Implications for future research are discussed.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Honours) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Sciences - Department of Psychology (Up to 30 Jun 2013) |
| Supervisors: | Gerry Fogarty |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Science (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Nov 2025 01:50 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Nov 2025 01:50 |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52751 |
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