<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The number and severity of road traffic accidents in the Russian Federation is not reduced from year to year. It is established that one of the common causes of traffic accidents is sleep at the wheel, it is especially typical for operators-drivers of transport agricultural machinery. According to the experimental data were derived mathematical dependences of operator reaction time of the driver at the beginning and end of the work shift by his age, which proved that with increasing age operator reaction time in an emergency increases</p></abstract>

The number and severity of road traffic accidents in the Russian Federation is not reduced from year to year. It is established that one of the common causes of traffic accidents is sleep at the wheel, it is especially typical for operators-drivers of transport agricultural machinery. According to the experimental data were derived mathematical dependences of operator reaction time of the driver at the beginning and end of the work shift by his age, which proved that with increasing age operator reaction time in an emergency increases

Ensuring Operators-Drivers Transport of Agricultural Machinery Safety in the Context of Sustainable Development

Saint-Petersburg State Agrarian University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Visegrad Journal on Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development

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The number and severity of road traffic accidents in the Russian Federation is not reduced from year to year. It is established that one of the common causes...

Ensuring Operators-Drivers Transport of Agricultural Machinery Safety in the Context of Sustainable Development

Published Online: Jun 13, 2014

Page range: 30 - 32

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/vjbsd-2014-0006

© Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.