Keep Trucking Safe Trucking Injury Reduction Emphasis
Down load Preventing Injuries in the Trucking Industry, Focus Report (940KB)
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Truck drivers face a disproportionately high risk for fatal crash-related injuries and for serious health disorders. The 2004 fatality rate for U.S. heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers was 48.2 per 100,000 workers, approximately 11 times the rate for the general worker population.
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Loading and unloading trucks can be a hazardous process. Forklift drivers themselves are rarely injured, but injuries and fatalities happen to co-workers and drivers that are struck or crushed by the forklift or freight. Have policies in place that keep other workers out of the path of the forklift. Below are some materials to help with your training.
Tight Squeeze? - poster (690 KB)
Stay alert when working around forklifts - true story (180 KB)