The Role of Sleepiness, Sleep Disorders, and the Work Environment on Heavy-Vehicle Crashes in Australian States

Heavy-vehicle driving involves a challenging work environment and a high crash rate. We investigated the associations of sleepiness, sleep disorders, and work environment (including truck characteristics) with the risk of crashing between 2008 and 2011 in the Australian states of New South Wales and...

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Main Authors: Stevenson, M., Elkington, J., Sharwood, L., Meuleners, Lynn, Ivers, R., Boufous, S., Williamson, A., Haworth, N., Quinlan, M., Grunstein, R., Norton, R., Wong, K.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39857