Professional drivers, i.e. lorry, truck, bus and taxi drivers, have been identified as a particular health risk group. An intervention to study the efficacy of a series of educational programmes, involving improved nutritional balance in meals served, food preparation routines and carrying out personal health profiles on staff, was implemented at a Swedish truck stop in order to target this spe...

AIMS To investigate psychiatric disorders, somatic health, and professional effects in French train drivers having experienced a "person under train" accident, and somatic health and professional effects. METHODS A total of 202 train drivers were evaluated several times: immediately after the event, three months later, and one, two, and three years later. These drivers were compared with 186 ...

BACKGROUND Sleepiness-at-the-wheel has been identified as a major cause of highway accidents. The aim of our study is identifying the candidate measures for home-based screening of sleep disordered breathing in Taiwanese bus drivers, instead of polysomnography. METHODS Overnight polysomnography accompanied with simultaneous measurements of alternative screening devices (pulse oximetry, ApneaL...

OBJECTIVES To study risk of lung cancer among groups of professional drivers probably exposed to different levels of traffic exhaust fumes. METHODS A nationwide case-control study (1970-89) based on employees comprising 28,744 men with primary lung cancer and incidence density sampled matched controls (1:1). Employment histories were reconstructed back to 1964 for each study subject from the ...

Objectives—To study risk of lung cancer among groups of professional drivers probably exposed to diVerent levels of traYc exhaust fumes. Methods—A nationwide case-control study (1970–89) based on employees comprising 28 744 men with primary lung cancer and incidence density sampled matched controls (1:1). Employment histories were reconstructed back to 1964 for each study subject from the recor...

BACKGROUND Urban taxi drivers differ from other professional drivers in their exposures to physical and psychosocial hazards in the work environment. Epidemiological data on low back pain (LBP) of this occupational group are very scarce. AIMS To examine LBP in taxi drivers and its association with prolonged driving and other occupational factors. METHODS We analyzed the cross-sectional data...