Download or read book Strategies to Combat Fatigue in the Long Distance Road Transport Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report investigates strategies that would be effective and practicable in reducing driver fatigue in the long distance road transport industry. Information was collected from correspondence and consultations with international authorities in the area, consultations with major employer and employee organisations in Aust & questionnaire based survey of 960 drivers across Aust It includes assessments of the extent of the problem, and attitudes to a range of possible solutions by these groups, as well as an analysis of the experience of fatigue by employment status and type of driving operation (two-up, staged etc). Long distance road transport. Staged driving. Two up driving. Surveys.
Download or read book Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Fatigue Long Term Health and Highway Safety written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are approximately 4,000 fatalities in crashes involving trucks and buses in the United States each year. Though estimates are wide-ranging, possibly 10 to 20 percent of these crashes might have involved fatigued drivers. The stresses associated with their particular jobs (irregular schedules, etc.) and the lifestyle that many truck and bus drivers lead, puts them at substantial risk for insufficient sleep and for developing short- and long-term health problems. Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Fatigue, Long-Term Health and Highway Safety assesses the state of knowledge about the relationship of such factors as hours of driving, hours on duty, and periods of rest to the fatigue experienced by truck and bus drivers while driving and the implications for the safe operation of their vehicles. This report evaluates the relationship of these factors to drivers' health over the longer term, and identifies improvements in data and research methods that can lead to better understanding in both areas.
Download or read book Fatigue and Driving written by L R. Hartley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique edited collection derives from an international workshop uniting experts from the transport industry, legislators and research workers. The text focuses on issues from fatigue and their impact on performance and safety. Fatigue and Driving provides an overview of the individual and organisational perspectives of the problem including its many causes and consequences. Transport drivers describe their real-life experience of fatigue and how they identify and manage it; transport managers discuss the demands and constraints on their industry; researchers discuss their current research methodologies and the use of driving simulators.
Download or read book Strategies to Combat Driver Fatigue in the Long Distance Road Transport Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study measurements of a range of indicators of fatigue were collected on long distance truck drivers undertaking a 10-12 hour journey under different operational conditions. Measurements of cognitive performance, physiological state, vehicle control and subjective perceptions of fatigue were taken for a sample of 27 drivers on trips corresponding to staged driving, single driving and driving to a flexible schedule. Results indicate that a 10-12 hour trip is tiring no matter how the work is organised, and that the effects of accumulated fatigue may overshadow the the effects of fatigue on a single 10-12 hour trip. Staged driving. Long distance road transport. Truck drivers. Two up driving. Driver performance. Work practices.
Download or read book The Handbook of Operator Fatigue written by Gerald Matthews and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fatigue is a recognized problem in many facets of the human enterprise. It is not confined to any one area of activity but enters all situations in which humans have to perform for extended intervals of time. Most problematic are the circumstances in which obligatory action is continuous and the results of failure are evidently serious or even catastrophic. Therefore, the modern media especially highlights fatigue-related failures in industries such as transportation, materials processing and healthcare. It can be, and indeed is, no coincidence that most of the spectacular failures in process control that have resulted in the world's largest industrial accidents have occurred in the small hours of the morning when the circadian rhythm is lowest and operator fatigue itself peaks. While there have been legislative efforts made at state, federal and international levels to regulate working hours of employees, the appropriate implementation of such legislation is still a long way off. The Handbook of Operator Fatigue provides a comprehensive account of the subject to serve as the definitive reference work for researchers, students and practitioners alike. The volume features 30 chapters written by experts from around the world to address each important facet of fatigue, including: the scale of the fatigue problem (Section I), the nature of fatigue (Section II), how to assess fatigue (Section III), the impact of fatigue on health (Section IV), fatigue in the workplace (Section V), the neurological basis of fatigue (VI), sleep disorders (VII), and the design of countermeasures to fatigue (VIII).
Download or read book Literature Review on Health and Fatigue Issues Associated with Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Hours of Work written by and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2005 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB's Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program (CTBSSP) Synthesis 9: Literature Review on Health and Fatigue Issues Associated with Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Hours of Work examines literature relevant to health and fatigue issues associated with commercial vehicle driver hours of service. This literature review was specifically requested by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to provide information related to its Hours of Service regulations issued in January 2004. The report contains a general literature review of the health issues from 1975 to the present, and fatigue issues from January 2004 to present, associated with commercial vehicle driver hours of service. The report also contains a literature review of references that were cited in response to a related FMCSA January 2005 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. Strictly a literature review, the report does not contain any conclusions or recommendations.
Download or read book Strategies to Combat Fatigue in the Long Distance Road Transport Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report aims to identify effective and practical strategies to reduce driver fatigue in the long distance bus and coach industry. Information was collected using consultants with industry representatives and a survey of 250 drivers, to determine the extent of the problem and attitudes to a range of possible solutions. Results are analysed across a range of different operations and employment conditions. Bus transport. Two up driving. Staged driving. Countermeasures. Surveys.
Download or read book Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summary of Findings written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Aspects of Road Transport written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seminar, held in Paris in December 1998, was a forum for discussion of four topics: working condition, access to and future of the profession, economic stakes and the role and limits of public authorities.
Download or read book Occupational Injury written by Anne Marie Feyer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1998-01-20 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Occupational injury is a major and often preventable health problem in the work environment. Each year throughout the world millions are affected by traumatic occupational injuries and many thousands are actually killed in work-related incidents. This book provides a diverse and multi-faceted look at some of the themes directing late-1990s research
Download or read book Transportation Labor Issues and Regulatory Reform written by James Peoples and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-11-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regulatory reform in the late 1970s and early 1980s vastly transformed the labor market for transportation workers. Most research in this area focuses on the effect of deregulation on the earnings of nonmanagement company workers in airline, trucking and rail. Deregulation of transportation industries, though, has had a broader effect on workers. For instance, deregulation also influences workers' hours worked per week, working conditions, worker safety, and a host of other labor issues. Deregulation might also influence the earnings of managers and self-employed workers in transportation industries. Examining these issues is valuable because such analysis provides a more complete assessment of labor market changes following the shift to a more market oriented business environment. Transportation Labor Issues and Regulatory Reform adds to the debate on deregulation's influence on transportation labor markets by presenting empirical evidence on an array of labor market outcomes in transportation industries. Contributions to this volume are categorized by their analysis on worker safety, working conditions and employment opportunities, and by their analysis on managerial and self-employed earnings
Download or read book Fatigue and Its Safety Effects on the Commercial Motor Carrier and Railroad Industries written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Technical Conference on Enhanced Safety of Vehicles Fifteenth Proceedings Volume 2 written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Annotated Literature Review Relating to Proposed Revisions to the Hours of service Regulation for Commercial Motor Vehicle Drivers written by Deborah M. Freund and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effects of Psychoactive Chemicals on Commercial Driver Health and Performance Stimulants Hypnotics Nutritional and Other Supplements written by Gerald P Krueger and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2011 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB’s Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program (CTBSSP) Synthesis 19: Effects of Psychoactive Chemicals on Commercial Driver Health and Performance: Stimulants, Hypnotics, Nutritional, and Other Supplements identifies available information and research gaps relating to the use of chemical substances by commercial drivers and is intended to provide up-to-date information to inform decision makers about the near-, mid-, and long-range planning needs for research and educational outreach programs.
Download or read book Safety on Roads What s the Vision written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-12 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report identifies and assesses "best practices" among road safety programmes in OECD countries.
