[Accidents among ambulance employees: epidemiologic features].
The accidents have been esteemed that are verified in four years in a group of 824 employees. The study has underlined a meaningful percentage (30.1%) of road accidents. This suggests the opportunity of contemplate preventive actions: corrected maintenance of the ambulance, control of the conditions of environmental comfort, organization of the job, individualization of conditions that reduces the attention and the concentration, as the use of alcohol and of other substances.
Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Patologia, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza.
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D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000552:Ambulances; D006801:Humans