Professional drives

However, since the fate of most individuals is still governed by the position in society into which they are born, only a minority is lucky enough to acquire professional drives in full harmony with natural endowments. The majority, as a matter of fact, forms - under coercion - the work-related drives that will ensure the place of the individual in the society. Conformity between one s innate abilities and acquired work-related drives is of key importance for lifelong equilibrium. However, not only the desire to be permanently active is a natural endowment of the human brain, but there is also a need for a new challenge to one s drives in due time. Even the most satisfying professional drive becomes boring after its permanent, continuous use and there is a need to continue to keep the brain in a satisfyingly active state. Inexhaustible forms of supplementary activities serve this aim. 

Absolute dominance ofafully satisfying professional drive and the acquisition of well-chosen supplementary drives are the conditions for a harmonious, well balanced life. 

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Successful operations must go beyond regulatory obligations. Recruitment, selection, and training programs must reflect a companies commitment to choosing individuals who will understand their responsibility to safety and commitment to professional driving. ... 

By the very nature of their work, drivers operate essentially free of direct supervision. Professional driving is a position of trust for which responsible and competent drivers must be selected. 

The driver affects the accident risk in many ways. He has a crucial influence on road use and thus determines exposure. In professional driving, the decision about road use is usually made by the employer. Driving behaviour has a decisive influence on the pre-crash phase and hence on the probability of traffic accidents. Although the crash phase is to some extent controlled by the driver, previous actions to control speed and direction will affect the outcome. 

Just as important is the manner in which the initial safety message is conveyed to the new employees. The tone, attitude, and sincerity (or lack of it) will be felt by the new workers. If new employees are a part of a warehouse walk-through, they will notice how fellow workers are conducting themselves. If a hard-hat rule exists and the employee has been told to wear a hard hat, it is expected that fellow workers, supervisors, and visitors will also be wearing hard hats. If there are requirements for safe forklift operations and professional driving skills, the new worker should be able to observe this. If management states one thing and allows the opposite to take place, the new worker will see this disparity of work practices. 

Heinz P. Bloch, P.E., B.S.M.E., M.S.M.E., Consulting Engineer, Process Macliinery Consulting American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Vibration Institute Registered Professional Engineer (New Jersey, Texas) (Section 29, Process Macliinery Drives)... 

The therapist assures the client that the items will be held in trust (rather than kept permanendy by the therapist or counselor), and that these items will be turned over to a family member or friend if the client requests it. If the means involve pills, then the pills should be asked for and kept safe by the therapist for the client. If the pills are not needed by the client (e.g., an unnecessary medicine such as Tylenol), or are a necessary medicine (e.g., a prescribed antidepressant), then the therapist may ask the client to therapeutically dispose of them at a later time in therapy. If the instrument is a car (intended to be driven into a tree, off a bridge, etc.), the therapist must intervene and not allow the client to drive home, and instead have the client call for a ride. When a plan is in place and the means are available, professionals need to throw up as many roadblocks as possible to prevent the client from accessing the planned means of harm. 

The author of this piece drives home the idea that professional athletes get paid too much, especially in comparison to teachers, who help you succeed in life. As much as anyone may believe that teachers deserve to be paid more than they earn or that some professional athletes are grossly overpaid, this author s argument is not very effective. Much of the evidence and reasoning the author uses is flimsy and illogically reasoned—there is a shaky conclusion, counterarguments are not addressed, and the premises the author uses to support the conclusion are not reasonably qualified. 

Sleep deprivation affects not only automobile drivers but also many truck drivers. In a study of professional U.S. truck drivers, Mitler et al. (25) recorded the EEG of 20 drivers on four different work schedules. This study demonstrated a mean duration of sleep of 4.78 hr in a 5-day period. Fifty-six percent of drivers presented at least 6 noncontinuous min of EEG-recorded sleep during the driving... 

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. 

In 1995, a study by the National Transportation Safety Board on fatal accidents in professional trucks drivers (27) showed that the mean duration of sleep among drivers was below 6 hr of sleep in the last 24 hr before the accident. Connor et al. (8) showed that sleepiness at the wheel increased the risk of causing a traffic accident by 8.2-fold. Sleeping less than 5 hr in the 24 hr before the accident and driving between 2 and 5 a.m. were also significant risk factors for accidents [odds ratio (OR) = 2.7 and OR = 5.6, respectively],... 

After treatment, physicians should evaluate the ability of patients to drive without suffering from sleepiness. If physicians question treatment efficacy, an objective evaluation of the ability to stay awake should be performed, especially for professional drivers who cannot escape the risk of falling asleep at the wheel. 

In summary, self-perceived negative effects on mood, motivation, and life satisfaction as a result of chronic sleep loss are almost universally reported in medical trainees. The consequences of these psychological factors on the physician-patient relationship and on interactions with other professionals in the hospital setting have been largely unexplored. The potential for significant health-related consequences in residents, particularly morbidity and mortality related to drowsy-driving accidents, is supported by a number of studies. 

Gillberg M, Kecklund G, Akerstedt T. Sleepiness and performance of professional drivers in a truck simulator—comparisons between day and night driving. J Sleep Res 1996 5 12-15. 

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