Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 1 2022
Driving health: describing Australia’s most dangerous profession
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Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 1 2022
Driving health: describing Australia’s most dangerous profession
Driving health: describing Australia’s most dangerous profession
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Driving health: describing Australia’s most dangerous profession
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Introduction: More Australian men are employed as truck drivers than any other occupation, and are at increased risk of injury, ill health and even death at work. The Driving Health study aimed to examine the role of personal, occupational, workplace environment, regulatory, lifestyle, and health risk domains in truck driver physical health, mental health and driving performance.
Materials and methods: This was a cross-sectional study, using an initial short online survey and a follow up telephone survey with Australian truck drivers. We examined the contribution of determinants on four major study outcomes including psychological distress, general health, work ability and near misses. Determinants selected by LASSO regression were entered into hierarchical regression by introducing each domain in steps.
Results: The final cohort for analysis consisted of 332 truck drivers.
LASSO regression identified the 13 most relevant determinants to
work ability and hierarchical regression analysis showed that the six domains together explained 28% of the variation in work ability, of which the personal and health risk domains explained the most variation in the outcome. Six domains accounted for 53.7% of the variance in increased psychological distress, and 36.2% of the variance in general health. Four domains were related to experiencing near misses while driving.
Conclusions: The determinants of driver physical and mental health and driving performance are complex and span multiple domains. For drivers to be healthy and stay healthy at work, changes need to be addressed at organisational and regulatory/government levels.
Materials and methods: This was a cross-sectional study, using an initial short online survey and a follow up telephone survey with Australian truck drivers. We examined the contribution of determinants on four major study outcomes including psychological distress, general health, work ability and near misses. Determinants selected by LASSO regression were entered into hierarchical regression by introducing each domain in steps.
Results: The final cohort for analysis consisted of 332 truck drivers.
LASSO regression identified the 13 most relevant determinants to
work ability and hierarchical regression analysis showed that the six domains together explained 28% of the variation in work ability, of which the personal and health risk domains explained the most variation in the outcome. Six domains accounted for 53.7% of the variance in increased psychological distress, and 36.2% of the variance in general health. Four domains were related to experiencing near misses while driving.
Conclusions: The determinants of driver physical and mental health and driving performance are complex and span multiple domains. For drivers to be healthy and stay healthy at work, changes need to be addressed at organisational and regulatory/government levels.
Creator
Ting Xia, Caryn Van Vreden, Elizabeth Pritchard, Sharon Newnam, Shanthakumar Rajaratnam, Dan Lubman, Alex Collie, Abilio De Almeida, Ross Iles
Publisher
Elsevier Korea LLC
Date
January 2022
Contributor
Sri Wahyuni
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PDF
Language
English
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Text
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Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 1 2022
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Ting Xia, Caryn Van Vreden, Elizabeth Pritchard, Sharon Newnam, Shanthakumar Rajaratnam, Dan Lubman, Alex Collie, Abilio De Almeida, Ross Iles, “Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 1 2022
Driving health: describing Australia’s most dangerous profession,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed October 31, 2025, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/2365.
Driving health: describing Australia’s most dangerous profession,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed October 31, 2025, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/2365.