Analysis Physical, Mental, Environment Workload Factors Associated with Fatigue among Truck Drivers in PT. X Year 2021

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Fatigue is a significant factor regarding safety issues such as transportation incident. Statistics show truck driver fatigue accounts for about 10 to 15% of serious road traffic accidents. The likelihood of a traffic accident occurring in an exhausted truck driver is eight times higher than for a well rested truck driver. According to the Badan Pusat Statistik (2019), During the 2015-2019 period, the number of traffic accidents in Indonesia increased by an average of 4.87 percent per year. Korlantas POLRI recorded the number of accidents throughout 2019 as many as 116,411. The number is up 6.59 percent compared to 2018 with 109,215 events. Accidents on truck cars occupy the third position based on the type of vehicle with the number of accidents 5.02 percent or about 5,822 incidents. Therefore, this study aims to describe the level of fatigue and the factors associated with complaints of fatigue on truck drivers. This research was conducted in July – October 2021 at PT. X as a company engaged in the transportation sector. This research is a quantitative research with a cross sectional study design. The sample in this study were 64 truck drivers. The data were then analyzed by chi square statistical test. The results of the study showed that 89% of respondents experienced moderate fatigue and 11% of respondents experienced high fatigue. From this research, it is also known that there is a relationship between sleep quality, duration of work and work environment load with complaints of fatigue in machinists (p <0.05). While individual factors in the form of age and smoking habits, sleep quantity and mental burden factors in the form of workload, work schedules are known to have no relationship with fatigue complaints among drivers (p>0.05).