Hazard scenarios of truck drivers' occupational accidents on and around trucks during loading and unloading

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-29

  Shibuya, Hitomi ^a   Cleal, Bryan ^a   Kines, Pete ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Falls; Field observations; Narrative text analysis; Occupational injuries; Slips and trips

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; FALL FROM HEIGHT; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; LOADING AND UNLOADING; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL INJURY; TEXT ANALYSIS; TRIGGERING FACTORS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; AUTOMOBILES; HAZARDS; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; RISK PERCEPTION; TRUCK DRIVERS; TRUCKS; UNLOADING;

TRUCK TRANSPORTATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DENMARK; FALLING; HUMAN; MOTOR VEHICLE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; DENMARK; HUMANS; MOTOR VEHICLES; NARRATION; RISK FACTORS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 71849115704     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2009.06.026     Document Type: Article

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