Title
Tiredness and sleepiness in rural bus drivers during their job performance: Peruvian experience and proposals
Other title
Cansancio y somnolencia durante el desempeño laboral de los conductores interprovinciales: Experiencia peruana y planteamiento de propuestas
Date Issued
01 January 2010
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Instituto Nacional de Salud
Abstract
The information indicates that the traffic accidents caused by bus drivers' sleepiness or tiredness are frequent in our country. A driver that falls asleep while driving cannot perform evasive maneuvers in order to avoid crashes or getting off the track, being the result of this kind of accidents a great number of victims and infrastructure destruction. In this article we discuss the original data published in Peru up to date and make general proposals to face the problem.
Start page
237
End page
242
Volume
27
Issue
2
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias médicas, Ciencias de la salud Ciencias de la salud
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-77955324684
Source
Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Publica
ISSN of the container
17264634
Sources of information: Directorio de Producción Científica Scopus