Bus-exposure matrix, a tool to assess bus drivers' exposure to physicochemical hazards.

ABSTRACT: Swiss bus drivers suffer from musculoskeletal disorders, fatigue, and stress and have an excessive mortality from lung cancer and suicide compared to other workers. However, their occupational exposure is poorly documented. We created a bus-exposure matrix (BEM) to determine occupational exposures to 10 types of physical-chemical hazards for 705 bus models used in Switzerland since 1980. For this, we made a comprehensive bus inventory and review of 50 technical characteristics of each bus model, identified 10 bus models representative of the Swiss bus fleet evolution, and conducted static and dynamic exposure measurement campaigns in the representative buses. The measured values were then extended to the entire fleet using Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation (INLA) models. The choice o

SUBMITTER: Remy VFM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12313460 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature