All workers
Provides information for employers to help with selecting fatigue detection technology
Provides information for officers on how to prevent crashes.
Recommends ways employers can keep workers safe in motor vehicles.
Presents the 2020–2029 strategic plan for the NIOSH Center for Motor Vehicle Safety.
Truck drivers
Provides information on the risk of obesity for long-haul truck drivers and some solutions to help.
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Commercial vehicle operators may be exposed to the bacteria that cause Legionnaires' Disease.
Learn more about what NIOSH is doing to improve Long-Haul Truck Driver Health
NIOSH thanks all truck drivers for their hard work and dedication.
A summary of the sleep and work issue.
Driving a truck is a very demanding job. Lack of sleep makes it more difficult to meet the demands o...
Truck drivers spend long hours behind the wheel, working an average of 41.5 hours per week.2 Therefo...
First responders
How to lower your risk of being struck by a passing vehicle while outside the patrol vehicle.
Provides information for officers on how to prevent crashes.
Explains how law enforcement agencies can prevent motor vehicle collisions.
Highlights results from a study on EMS workers and recommends steps to protect them.
Promotes safe driving practices within an agency so that patrol officers operate by a unified code.
2022-2024
2018-2021
2013-2017
2008-2012
Provides a statewide survey’s findings on motor vehicle safety among law enforcement officers.
NIOSH research revealed a number of important factors involved in ambulance worker injuries and deat...
Fire fighters may be at risk for crash-related injuries while operating excess and other surplus veh...
As part of the National Occupational Research Agenda, researchers at NIOSH set out to reduce ambulan...
Highway work zone workers
Workers on roadway construction worksites are exposed to possible injury and death from moving const...
Workers who operate or work around roller/compactors are at risk of injury from a machine rollover o...
A NIOSH review of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data identifi...
NIOSH reviewed the current literature on highway safety, analyzed data on worker fatalities in the h...
Between 1992 and 2001, 13,337 civilian workers died in roadway crashes, an average of 4 deaths each day
NIOSH requests assistance in preventing injuries and deaths among workers who operate, service, or w...
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) requests assistance in preventing...
The first edition of this Alert applied only to forklifts operated in a sitting position. However, t...
WARNING! Many workers are at high risk of injury and death from traffic-related motor vehicle crashe...
Oil and gas extraction workers
Describes how oil and gas workers can prevent fatigued driving at work.
Describes how oil and gas employers can prevent fatigued driving among workers.
This video encourages oil and gas extraction workers to wear a seat belt whenever in a moving motor...
Other topics
Explains workplace driving laws and recommends how to promote safe driving among young workers.
Describes age-related changes that may affect older workers’ driving and how to prevent crashes.
NIOSH reviewed the current literature on highway safety, analyzed data on worker fatalities in the h...
Recommends strategies for taxi drivers to prevent robbery and violence.
Driving from client to client, home healthcare workers are at high risk for motor vehicle-related in...
This construction vehicle list helps to visualize areas near vehicles and equipment.
Archived
2015-2019
Describes a strategic plan evaluation by the NIOSH Center for Motor Vehicle Safety.
Outlines the review’s purpose, methodology, results, and future research topics.
Describes the center’s progress toward meeting performance measures.
Presents information about the center and its activities in 2016.
2010-2014
This fact sheet will help employers be more aware of the risk of motor vehicle crashes among younger...
If you are a parent of a teen or young adult who drives as part of his or her job, it is important t...
2005-2009
Roadway crashes are the leading cause of occupational fatalities for older workers in the U.S. Betwe...
2000-2004
Roadway crashes are the leading cause of occupational fatalities in the U.S.
Between 1992 and 2001, 13,337 civilian workers died in roadway crashes, an average of 4 deaths each day
This bulletin notes two firefighter fatalities that involved fatal collisions between fire vehicles...
Mobile water supply vehicles, known as tankers or tenders, are widely used to transport water to are...
The number of fire fighters struck and killed by motor vehicles has dramatically increased within re...
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