Truck drivers hours-of-service regulations and occupational health

Work

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 363-368

  Jensen, Anker ^a   Dahlb, Søren ^b  

^a Danish Defense   (Denmark)

^b Department of Occupational Health   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Health effects; Hours of service; Occupational health; Truck driver

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACKACHE; CANADA; DRIVER; DROWSINESS; EUROPEAN UNION; FATIGUE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JOB STRESS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; REST; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TRAFFIC SAFETY; UNITED STATES; WORK SCHEDULE; WORKING TIME;

EUROPEAN UNION; FATIGUE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMANS; MOTOR VEHICLES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; REST; SAFETY; TIME FACTORS; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 70349548781     PISSN: 10519815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2009-0884     Document Type: Article

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