Health Promotion to Ensure the Sustainability of the Logistics Industry: Toward a Design for Well-Functioning Institutions

Abstract

This paper discusses the significance of investing in the health of truck drivers, the heart of the workforce involved in the logistics industry. Truck drivers have many health problems, and there is a relationship between their health, the way they work, and their environment. Limiting their long working hours is mandatory by law, but it removes only one of the factors that harm truck drivers’ health. There are several frameworks for promoting workers’ health, but coordination among them if often insufficient. Structural obstacles that depend on the type of occupation and industry also prevent any attempt to promote the health of truck drivers. Measures must therefore be planned that consider the impact of truck drivers’ work on their health and their environment. Investing in truck driver health will lead, through improved health, to better labor productivity and more employable human resources for not only each company, but for the logistics industry as a whole.