title: [Mental health and automation: remarks on a case study in the railroad industry]
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo, SP, 01313-902, Brasil.
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Seligmann-Silva