Emergency medical services personnel are involved in more transportation accidents and have higher fatality rates than do other professions, and traveling with light-and-siren is particularly risky. One factor that might contribute to transportation accidents is driver distraction. We investigated what kind of manual secondary tasks – distractions that require the driver to take at least one hand off the steering wheel – ambulance drivers face and compared the relative frequency and proportion of time spent in manual operations not related to driving for light-and-siren travel vs. non-light-and-siren travel. The results indicate that ambulance drivers face more manual distractions when traveling with light-and-siren than non-light-and-siren. In particular, operating the light-and-siren system is causing most of the manual distractions. We discuss the results and potential implication for practice.


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    Titel :

    Manual Distractions of Ambulance Drivers. Light-and-siren vs. Non-light-and-siren Travel


    Beteiligte:
    Grundgeiger, T. (Autor:in) / Scharf, M. (Autor:in) / Grundgeiger, J. (Autor:in) / Scheuchenpflug, R. (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2014


    Format / Umfang :

    5 Seiten, 13 Quellen




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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