Re: Train Drivers Life Expectancy

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"David Bennetts" <davibenn@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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| Anyone watch David Suzuki's program the other night on SBS, dealing with
| sleep deprivation and its effects.  There were some interesting shots of
the
| GO transit cars in Toronto, Canada with slumbering passengers inside.
Some
| interesting statistics were revealed for shift workers - I presume these
| were for Canada - truckers on average lived only 61 years, and after
| retiring the average "teamster" would receive only 14 monthly pension
| cheques before departing for that great truckstop in the sky.  Railroad
| engineers didn't fare much better, living on average for 64 years.  He
| claimed the average male life expectancy was 75 years (though I understand
| it's closer to 76 for Canada)
|
| Would be interesting to find out comparative statistics for these
employment
| categories in Australia, if these are available.
| The Bureau of Statistics may have them available, but they charge for more
| detailed information.

I'd also like to see the stats for cancer. To my mind there seems to be a
high incidence of cancer in both FreightCorp and CityRail Drivers.