%0 Journal Article
%T Health and Wellness Programs for Commercial Drivers
%J Commercial truck and bus safety synthesis program
%D 2007
%A Krueger, Gerald
%A Brewster, Rebecca
%A Dick, Virginia
%A Inderbitzen, Robert E.
%A Staplin, Loren K.
%V 
%N 15
%P 88p-88p
%X This synthesis will be useful to federal and state agencies, commercial truck and bus operators, and others interested in improving commercial vehicle safety. The synthesis provides a state of the practice of commercial driver health and wellness programs. It provides a review of literature on truck and motorcoach driver health issues, highlighting the chief health risks facing commercial drivers; presents an analytical review of literature associating crash causation with functional impairments affecting abilities of commercial motor vehicle drivers to drive safely; describes elements of employee health and wellness programs that could apply to commercial drivers; provides the results of a survey of trucking and motorcoach companies who have already implemented employee health and wellness programs and documents the components that are presently being offered to their drivers; and offers several case studies of successful employee health and wellness programs in the truck and motorbus industries, focusing on the elements that appear to work effectively.<p />
%G 
%I Transportation Research Board
%@ 1544-6808
%U http://dx.doi.org/