Now here's an interesting study -- they're saying that gas station workers are noticeably affected by all the fumes they're breathing.
Petrol workers accident prone on drive home
Petrol station workers are more than twice as likely to have an accident while driving home as on the way to work. This is the first confirmation of a link between low-level exposure to petrol fumes and road accidents.
Even motorists inhaling petrol fumes at a self-service station may be more likely to have a crash, according to Jung-Der Wang at the National Taiwan University, Taipei, who led the study.
His team looked at the number of road accidents experienced by a group of 20,000 workers at the same company. Nearly half worked on petrol station forecourts and had therefore been exposed to petrol fumes, the rest had office jobs or similar and were the control group. There was no demographic difference between the two groups.
The employees had 626 injury-causing road accidents between 1991 and 2000, with the forecourt workers having 61 per cent more accidents than the office...
(from New Scientist)
Petrol station workers are more than twice as likely to have an accident while driving home as on the way to work. This is the first confirmation of a link between low-level exposure to petrol fumes and road accidents.
Even motorists inhaling petrol fumes at a self-service station may be more likely to have a crash, according to Jung-Der Wang at the National Taiwan University, Taipei, who led the study.
His team looked at the number of road accidents experienced by a group of 20,000 workers at the same company. Nearly half worked on petrol station forecourts and had therefore been exposed to petrol fumes, the rest had office jobs or similar and were the control group. There was no demographic difference between the two groups.
The employees had 626 injury-causing road accidents between 1991 and 2000, with the forecourt workers having 61 per cent more accidents than the office...
(from New Scientist)
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