Abstract

ORDAZ CASTILLO, Elena et al. Organización y actividades preventivas en el sector del transporte de mercancías por carretera. Med. segur. trab. [online]. 2008, vol.54, n.212, pp.79-89. ISSN 1989-7790.

Goals: To identify the most prevalent resources and preventive activities in professional long-haul drivers and their peculiarities related to the other Spanish production branches. Methodology: We develop a descriptive analysis of data from the Survey of Health and Working Conditions in professional truck drivers and we compare these results with the other Spanish production branches through the VNational Survey on Working Conditions. The statistical analysis applied T-Student test and the Ji square. Results: In this branch 77% of companies have less than 50 employees. 41% of drivers referred that it does not exist the «Delegado de Prevención» (workers representative) in their companies and 25% that there is not any Preventive Action. It is specially relevant the unknowledge among drivers about preventive resources in their companies (34.3%). The most frequently introduced preventive modality in the sector is the employer taking prevention by himself (13.6%) whilst other sectors are mainly covered by External Preventive Services (43%). Conclusions: If Transport branch is compared with the general - reference population it shows an image in which undersized companies linked to a weak development of preventive network could be determinant to their lowest preventive activities. Also we find a better self perceived health related to a better access to preventive activities.

Keywords : Long-haul drivers; Preventive Organization; Preventive Resources; Preventive activities; Self-perceived health.

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