Work Injuries Among Drivers in the Goods-Transport Branch in Denmark
In recent years, Danish goods transport drivers had an elevated injury-related hospital contact rate in comparison to the skilled/semiskilled workforce. In order to elucidate work injury causes, the authors conducted a 10-year (1993-2002) analysis of the Danish National Work Injury Register. Among goods transport-related work injuries, the vast majority (92.6%) were sustained through non-traffic activities, such as goods collection, loading, unloading, and delivery. Injured drivers were struck by falling objects (9.0%), slipped/tripped (10.6%), collided with objects (12.0%), got caught between/under objects (12.6%), suffered from overexertion (14.2%), or fell from height (22.3%). Among Danish goods transport drivers, there is a clear need for work injury prevention efforts under non-traffic activities. It is necessary, for this to be achieved, for involvement not only of drivers' employers for safety procedure reinforcement, but also, for physical environment improvement by the employers' customers, for whom goods are collected, loaded, unloaded and delivered by drivers.
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Authors:
- Shibuya, Hitomi
- Cleal, Bryan
- Mikkelsen, Kim Lyngby
- Publication Date: 2008-5
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 364-371
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Serial:
- American Journal of Industrial Medicine
- Volume: 51
- Issue Number: 5
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
- ISSN: 0271-3586
- EISSN: 1097-0274
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Drivers; Freight traffic; Injuries; Occupational safety
- Uncontrolled Terms: Injury prevention
- Geographic Terms: Denmark
- Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01111074
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Sep 24 2008 10:38AM