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The article focuses on the importance of transportation system which acts as transmission belt of a country's economy. It reports that the road transport sector, passengers and goods are dominant sectors in the market. It also discusses the safety factors in the industry including driver's safety, vehicle's safety and accident prevention, which are centered in the economic policy of a country.

The world of psycho-physical fitness of the workers in the railways has an important basis on a complex system of national and European laws. Different laws pursue different purposes: Occupational Safety and Health (with a focus on the worker), Transport Safety (which preserve the safety of the community, acting on the human factors) and Road Transport Safety. Many of the Italian National laws already are or are about to become the implementation of European Directives and Recommendations. In addition, on the European and National laws, a big number of documents concerning this specific topic, comes from public Institutes or international associations for railways standardization and has a great impact on the criteria for the medical fitness judgments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

GEOmedia interviewed Antonio Bottaro, the head of Research and Development of Sogei, the in-house company of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, which for 40 years working for innovation, with a cutting-edge industrial design and advanced IT solutions digitization of the Public Administration. Antonio Bottaro is also CEO of GEOWEB S.p.A. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lo studio ha coinvolto 25 aziende, con 267 lavoratori (264 uomini e 3 donne), di cui il 64,41% addetto al trasporto su strada e il 35,59% carrellisti, in prevalenza di nazionalità italiana con età media di 44,5 anni e nel 55% con diploma di licenza media. Il 58% del campione dichiarava di bere regolarmente, aveva un'età compresa tra i 30 e 39 anni, con assunzione in prevalenza di vino e mix di alcolici durante il fine settimana. Il 40% degli intervistati riferiva abitudine tabagica, con consumo medio giornaliero di 19,5 sigarette. Nel questionario inoltre si affrontava il tema dell'informazione e consapevolezza in tema di normativa specifica e di rischi causati da alcol. L'88%, dei lavoratori mostrava consapevolezza sulle problematiche legate all'uso di alcol e guida, ma d'altro canto l'85% degli intervistati non mostrava nessun interesse per una proposta formativa sull'argomento. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]