CDC Vitalsigns: Trucker Safety: Using a Seat Belt Matters

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• Journal Article:
  CDC Vital Signs
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Trucker safety requires an alert, buckled-up, experienced driver, with a reliable vehicle and strong employer safety programs. About 2.6 million workers drive trucks that weigh over 10,000 pounds (large trucks). About 65% of on-the-job deaths of US truck drivers in 2012 were the result of a motor vehicle crash. More than 1 in 3 truck drivers have had a serious truck crash during their career, and 1 in 8 has had 2 or more. Buckling up is both effective and required by federal regulations. But 1 in 6 drivers of large trucks don't use their seat belts (2013). More than 1 in 3 truck drivers who died in crashes in 2012 were not wearing seat belts. Buckling up could have prevented up to 40% of these deaths. View the full MMWR article: Vital signs: seat belt use among long-haul truck drivers - United States, 2010. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Traffic Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Mining Morbidity Mortality Motor Vehicles Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Safety Management Seat Belts Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Motor-vehicles; Mortality-rates; Traumatic-injuries; Truck-drivers; Drivers; Safety-belts; Safety-practices; Work-practices; Behavior; Behavior-patterns; Risk-analysis; Risk-factors; Transportation; Transportation-industry; Transportation-workers; Accidents; Occupational-hazards; Health-surveys; Statistical-analysis; Public-health; Law-enforcement; Equipment-design; Surveillance
• Source:
  CDC Vital Signs 2015 Mar; :1-4
• Series:
  CDC Vital signs
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Alaska ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research ; DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies ; DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology ; APRO - Alaska Pacific Regional Office
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  4 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20045857
• Email:
  gdc0@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• NORA Priority Area:
  Transportation, Warehousing and Utilities
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ccda18ed83febb326423406d649e85754427f00498ac4c571a88f4249873ff2c225854bf5be17f4c927612da2dd20a6099542c284efc8ea9f1d0c71c92efc8f1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/28171/cdc_28171_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.21 MB ]