Working conditions and occupational risk exposure in employees driving for work

•About a quarter of employees are exposed to occupational road driving.•Constraints related to working hours and work time were more frequent among employees to occupational road driving.•Exposed workers exhibited more decision latitude when compared to non-exposed workers.•A limited number of published studies have examined the linkage between working conditions and work-related road exposure. An analysis of the occupational constraints and exposures to which employees facing road risk at work are subject was performed, with comparison versus non-exposed employees. Objective was to improve knowledge of the characteristics of workers exposed to road risk in France and of the concomitant occupational constraints. The descriptive study was based on data from the 2010 SUMER survey (Medical Monitoring of Occupational Risk Exposure: Surveillance Médicale des Expositions aux Risques professionnels), which included data not only on road risk exposure at work but also on a range of socio-occupational factors and working conditions. The main variable of interest was “driving (car, truck, bus, coach, etc.) on public thoroughfares” for work (during the last week of work). This was a dichotomous “Yes/No” variable, distinguishing employees who drove for work; it also comprised 4-step weekly exposure duration: