Delivery Truck Drivers’ Work Outside Their Cabs: Ergonomic Video Analyses Supplemented with National Accident Statistics

Abstract

Delivery truck drivers’ work contains various physically and psychosocially demanding work situations. Fifteen drivers’ and 8 other stakeholders’ identifications of such work situations were examined by video analyses in this study. The identifications were analyzed in‐depth by the researchers and compared with statistics on 3,507 accidents in the Finnish trucking industry. The aim was to determine what kind of identifications were made and to what degree the identifications coincided among the participants and with the accident statistics. The drivers’ identifications differed from the statistics data. The statistics showed a significantly higher relative frequency of movement‐related situations. However, the identifications also included risks for future workload‐related musculoskeletal disorders. Most commonly, these were emphasized during manual materials handling. The participation of different interest groups seems to increase the amount of relevant information obtained. Nonetheless, the age of the evaluator seems not to affect the analyses.

Risk factors contributing to truck drivers’ non-driving occupational accidents

“…However, in the present study, we focus on a seldom-studied part of truck drivers’ work that is related to their tasks outside the cab. Several studies (see Chandler et al , 2017; Friswell and Williamson, 2010; Reiman et al , 2015; Shibuya et al , 2010; Wioland, 2013) have shown that the vast majority of these occupational accidents (referred to below simply as accidents) occur while performing tasks outside the cab.…”

A Biobjective Model for Manual Materials Handling with Energy Consumption Being Accounted For

“…Profits can be gained by standardized production to improve production efficiency for enterprises, while workers must continue working in designated work locations and standard time by engineers. In the actual production, a large number of upper limb tasks are performed by workers, which include some typical actions like grasping, lifting, lowering, carrying, pushing, pulling, and walking in the workshop, especially manual materials handling (MMH) [3][4][5][6]. MMH tasks are common in various industries such as manufacturing, agriculture, hospital, and construction.…”