NEW REPORT CALLS FOR FATIGUE RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES TO PROTECT DRIVERS
A new EU-wide report has found that around a third of drivers has fallen asleep while driving at least once in the past year.
The European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) is calling on employers to introduce company-wide fatigue risk management strategies to combat the problem after its report, which is the first EU-wide study in 15 years on driver fatigue in commercial transport, also found that 60% of truck drivers and 66% of bus and coach drivers regularly feel tired when driving.
The study, which was undertaken last year, has two objectives, according to the ETF, which represents more than 3.5 million transport workers from more than 230 transport unions and 41 European countries.
The first is to describe the nature and extent of driver fatigue in the road passenger and freight transport sector in Europe while the second is to examine the specific working conditions of professional drivers and how they lead to endemic fatigue in this transport sector.
This is a very large “Real” problem.
