Implementation of a psychomotor vigilance test to investigate the effects of driving fatigue on oil and gas truck drivers’ performance

Frontiers in Public Health

Public Health

Ahmad Shahrul Nizam Isha¹  Noreen Kanwal²  Maged S. Al-Quraishi³  Al-Baraa Abdulrahman Al-Mekhlafi⁴ 

[1] Department of Management & Humanities, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia;Department of Management, Sunway Business School, Sunway University, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia;Faculty of Engineering, Thamar University, Dhamar, Yemen;Centre for Digital Home, Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia;Faculty of Leadership and Management, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM), Nilai, Malaysia;

关键词: driving fatigue;    driving performance;    truck drivers;    psychomotor vigilance test;    oil and gas transportation;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2023.1160317

 received in 2023-02-07, accepted in 2023-08-28,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

IntroductionDriving fatigue has been shown to increase the risk of accidents and potentially fatal crashes. Fatigue is a serious risk that some drivers do not take seriously. Previous studies investigated the effects of driving fatigue in the Malaysian oil and gas transportation industry by employing survey questionnaires. However, they did not explain the behavior of fatigue. Besides, these results required validation by a more reliable method that can describe how fatigue occurs.MethodsThus, in this study, we used the Psychomotor Vigilance Test (PVT-192) and a short survey to address driving fatigue behavior and identify the influences of driving fatigue on driving performance in real life (on the road) with actual oil and gas tanker drivers. The total participants in the experimental study were 58 drivers.ResultsFor the analysis, a Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test, Z value and Spearman’s rho were used to measure the significant difference between the pre and post-tests of PVT and the correlation between the fatigue variables and driving performance.DiscussionDuring the experiment’s first and second days, this study’s results indicated that driving fatigue gradually escalated. Likewise, there was a negative correlation based on the test of the relationship between the PVT data and the driving performance survey data. Additionally, the drivers suffer from accumulative fatigue, which requires more effort from the transportation company management to promote the drivers awareness of fatigue consequences.

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