Analysis of Factors Determining Ergonomic Conditions of Driver’s Workplace and Safety in Transport of Dangerous Goods
Journal Title: Archives of Transport - Year 2012, Vol 24, Issue 3
Abstract
The article concerns issues connected with the safety of the carriage of dangerous goods. Raising a subject was justified with the rising number of cartages of these goods and the same height of the probability of the appearance of the environmental risk and remaining road users. A specificity of the arrangement was analyzed driver-vehicleenvironment, paying special attention to ergonomic determinants of working conditions of the driver. In the article data of the National Police Headquarters concerning causes of accident involving dangerous goods in the road transport was also described. Exceeding the permissible speed, the non-observance of traffic regulations, as well as the tiredness which resulted in reducing the psychophysical efficiency for the driver were regarded as the root cause of accidents. Conducted analyses allowed to effect the preliminary selection of factors, which accepting the wrong level can constitute the cause of accidents.
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Iwona Grabarek, Sylwia Bęczkowska
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- DOI 10.2478/v10174-012-0018-0
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