ABSTRACT
Work-related road accidents account for around twenty-five to thirty-three percent of all road fatalities in Britain and in the region of 250 serious injuries per week (Health & Safety Executive, 2003). These alarming statistics are echoed worldwide with road traffic accidents accounting for thirty-nine percent of work-related fatalities in Australia (Harrison, Mandryk and Frommer, 1993), twenty-seven percent in the USA (Miller, 1995, Miller and Galbraith, 1995) and professional drivers having the highest injury incidence of employed people in Sweden (Bylund, Bjornstig and Larsson, 1997).
