Safety Practices Among Bus Operators During Wee Hour Operations

• Main Authors: M.R. Osman, F. Abas, M.S. Noh, A. Mohamad Suffian, O. Ilhamah, H.Z. Zarir, A.B. Wahida, P. Noor Faradila, M.F. Siti Atiqah
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Safety practices; speeding; wee hour.; Fildes; Helgeland; Hennessy; Holme; Horne; Mayhew; Peacock; Saunders; Sullivan; Tyrrell; Ulmer; Williamson
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1077393; https://zenodo.org/record/1077393

Safety Health and Environment Code of Practice (SHE COP) was developed to help road transportation operators to manage its operation in a systematic and safe manner. A study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of SHE COP implementation during non-OPS period. The objective of the study is to evaluate the implementations of SHE COP among bus operators during wee hour operations. The data was collected by completing a set of checklist after observing the activities during pre departure, during the trip, and upon arrival. The results show that there are seven widely practiced SHE COP elements. 22% of the buses have average speed exceeding the maximum permissible speed on the highways (90 km/h), with 13% of the buses were travelling at the speed of more than 100 km/h. The statistical analysis shows that there is only one significant association which relates speeding with prior presence of enforcement officers. : {"references": ["M.Y. Mohd Faudzi, P. Sumangala, and R.S. 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