Psychosocial Risk Factors Among Slovene Professional Drivers

Konferenzbeitrag

The characteristics of the profession drivers, in the nature of their work, influence the occurrence of various health risk factors. Professional drivers are, in general, exposed to a workspace that is limited, vibrations, uncomfortable seats and forced position meanwhile prolonged sitting. The objective of our study was to investigate psychosocial risk factors among Slovene professional drivers’ samples in a crosssectional study. The data collection was performed by the use of a survey questionnaire, which was distributed among professional drivers. The research was conducted on 259 professional drivers; 125 train drivers, 57 bus drivers, 57 truck drivers and 20 other drivers (eg. taxi drives). The cooperation in the survey was anonymous and voluntary. The measurement for coping with psychosocial risks and absenteeism – OPSA was used, which is divided into two parts 1) a general part (which includes sociodemographic and health related information about the employees as well as 2) the part that focuses on employee psychosocial load evaluation. With the use of analysis of variance, we tested wheatear there were statistically significant differences in OPSA statements among mentioned groups of drivers. There is no evidence that the psychosocial risk factors (OPSA profile) are statistically significantly different between specific groups of drivers. However, could be noted that bus and train drivers are the most vulnerability occupational groups among professional drivers.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: In: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference, Rovinj, Croatia, 12-14 September 2019 ; Year: 2019 ; Pages: 209-218 ; Zagreb: IRENET - Society for Advancing Innovation and Research in Economy

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Health Behavior ; General Welfare; Well-Being ; Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
• Subject: Slovene professional drivers ; psychosocial risk factors ; absenteeism

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Murko, Danica ; Meško, Maja
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): IRENET - Society for Advancing Innovation and Research in Economy
• (where): Zagreb
• (when): 2019

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/207681
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET