Drivers safety

We conducted a study on 227 professional European drivers interviewed at a rest area (26). The drivers were found to have a fairly consistent total nocturnal sleep time during their work week, but on the last night at home prior to the new work week there was an abrupt earlier wake-up time associated with a decrease in nocturnal sleep time. The results showed that 12.3% of the drivers had slept less than 6 hr in the 24 hr prior to the interview and 17.1% of the drivers had been awake more than 16 hr. These results confirm those of Mitler et al., and suggest that an improvement of driving regulations is required to increase professional drivers safety. 

A passive protection of roadside contamination could be obtained by green screens, implanted along the motorways. But some engineers have an irrational fear of trees, demanding they be kept far from the roadway for driver safety. 

Many hand controls are attached to the steering column. Hand-controls either clamp to the steering column or are attached to a bracket which is bolted to the steering column or dash, typically where the steering column bolts to the dash. Installation of the hand-controls should not interfere with driver safety features (e.g., air bags, collapsible steering columns). The push rods of the hand-control either clamp directly to the pedals or the levers connected to them. 

The previous employer and its agents and insm ers must all take precautions to protect the driver safety performance history records from disclosime to any person not directly involved in forwarding the records. 

The driver safety measiarement system allows the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to directly monitor the safety and performance of individual drivers and address problem drivers based on their records across multiple employers. It holds both motor carriers and drivers responsible for safety and performance. 

Driver Safety Enforcement Approach — The driver safety enforcement approach focuses on driver enforcement for serious rule violations, including ... 

Failure to have a written (driver safety) policy in place creates an almost indefensible position if the employer ever needs protection from a negligent entrustment lawsuit. Of course, the corollary to this is that once a policy is in place, it must be followed and enforced. Make sure you regularly update your driver qualification files, training activities, and handling of risk-associated driving activities. These documents can be critical in the final outcome of a lawsuit. 

Important to all of this is a written document that states the company s policy on this subject and includes details such as the minimum credentials that must met to be eligible to drive (legal, experience, and acceptable risk levels) procedures for ongoing aedentialing reviews unacceptable infractions (regulatory and employer policy) that result in immediate removal from driving duties new hire and tenured driver safety training protocols and remediation for increased risk level assessments. 

Develop/update a fleet poficy which includes a driver safety program ... 

Ulleberg, P. Rundmo, T. (2003) Personality, attitudes and risk perception as predictors of risky driving behaviour among young drivers. Safety Science, 41,427—443. 

Coordinate, organize, and conduct monthly/quarterly driver safety meetings. 

Lesson learned Initial and continual driver safety training is considered a critical component of the overall safety program, and is viewed as an investment not as a cost. Consequently, one of your most important safety goals should be to establish a comprehensive driver training program that includes initial, refresher (annual), and remedial safety training for all drivers. 

Train all drivers, safety and operations personnel in the disqualification of drivers rules of 391.15. It is your drivers responsibility to behave and operate in a safe and responsible manner, but it is the organization s responsibility to make sure every driver operating your vehicles remains qualified. 

Operation Roadcheck The transportation industry is well aware of CVSA s Roadcheck, taking place for three days (72 hours) in early June of each year. The roadside inspection blitz is an intense truck and bus safety inspection effort conducted throughout Canada, Mexico, and the United States focusing on the international roadside inspection program and other commercial vehicle and driver safety programs. It is sponsored by CVSA, FMCSA, and other participating organizations, annually in June of each year. Published results... 

Make sure your safe driving training and corrective action processes are thoroughly communicated to all drivers, safety, and operation personnel. 

I AAHien conducting this training, make sure the drivers understand that their compliance (and the company s compliance) with the vehicle regulations is being tracked in the Vehicle Maintenance BASIC and the Cargo Related BASIC in the I CSA Safety Measurement Systems. All violations noted on roadside inspection reports are used to score the driver and carrier. However, due to the severity weighting process that both the Carrier and Driver Safety Measurement Systems use certain violations are to be avoided at all costs. These violations include ... 

At a minimum, there are six basic questions you should be able to answer about your cmrent driver safety reward system ... 

It assists in dealing with driver safety infi actions. 

Motor Vehicle Guidelines for Employers— This document offers useful information to help employers design an effective driver safety program in their woikplace. It features a 10-step program outlining what an employer can do to improve traffic safety performance and minimize the risk of motor vehicle crashes. It also includes success stories from employers who have benefited from effective driver safety programs (2005). 

Crashworthiness and integrity of passenger compartments permit race car drivers to survive crashes at very high speeds. Special restraint features in race cars, including helmet restraints that protect the neck, have added to race driver safety. Many of the features tested in racing vehicles find their way into commercial vehicles. Crashworthiness has improved in most cars over the years. Improved design features have contributed to the reduction in crash injuries and occupant deaths. 

Utility Driver Safety DVD. Part 1 Snow and Ice Part 2 Road Rage Part 3 Road Rules, (order 64238)... 

The site goes well beyond chemical process safety as it has industrial safety, home safety, driver safety, emergency response, RMP, and related topics. 

Abstract Local and short haul (L/SH) drivers work in various other work environments in addition to that of the truck cab, and the safety of these environments vary widely. In this study, we combined methods from three time perspectives accident statistics analyses (past) video observations (present) and scenario workshops (future) in order to provide new knowledge that can be applied to design and management process development in the transportation industry. Even though new technologies have and will emerge to ease drivers work, the work that is performed in environments other than truck cabs still involves tasks that require physical activities and pose risks of occupational diseases and accidents. Thus, drivers safety at work and work ability issues remain an area that needs continuous, systemic development. The results inevitably show that in order to successfully improve L/SH drivers work, the relevant stakeholders participation and a systemic approach is crucial. 

This paper sets out to show, within the vagaries of the pharmaceutical industry, the CAPE tools that can be used in process development. There are a number of issues to be resolved when developing a process, not just process specific, but business (economic) drivers, safety issues, environmental concerns, moral and ethical issues and regulatory requirements. In light of these varied challenges, we have found that not one CAPE package covers every aspect of development and that the combination of a number of specific tools suits the requirements of the pharmaceutical industry. 

Provide driver safety training that addresses safe driving issues such as inclement weather and adverse road conditions... 

The majority of participants had never experienced any form of level crossing safety education and comments indicated that both engineering and education needs should be addressed for truck driver safety ... 

This chapter outlines recent and emerging developments in vehicle technologies and their potential impact on driving performance. It also discusses what is crrrrently being done to manage driver distraction in Australia and describes various cormtermeasrrres that cotrld be adopted to limit its impact on driver safety. 

Ford offers the My Ford Touch driver-connect technology, which provides useful information such as current fuel level, current battery power level, instant vehicle status information for driver safety, and average and instant miles per gallon. 

Blomquist (1986) claims that risk compensation is a natural part of human behaviour where individuals pursue multiple goals with limited resources, and shows that this can be described with a simple utility model of driver behaviour. In this positive economic model, driver safety effort is determined by a balance between reduced risk and increased disutility cost. Changes that affect the balance induce drivers to change their own safety efforts. Under plausible conditions, a change in exogenous safety, which is beyond driver control, causes a compensatory change in driver effort in the opposite direction (Blomquist, 1986). 

Behavioural adaptation to complex technological advances aimed at improving driver safety such as ADAS and in-vehicle ITS is likely to prove difficult to predict. The models (RAT, SMH, the affect heuristic, BDT) discussed within this chapter would suggest that praaitioners must pay attention to whether a system change will affect the perceptual feedback experienced by the driver (via the senses) or whether the use of the system will alter a driver s perception (via experience and possibly knowledge)i of a safety critical behaviour (e.g., headway to the car in front). 

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