The Australian transport and logistics company Linfox is partnering with Monash University on a lengthy new study to better understand the health and wellbeing of workers in the logistics industry.

Linfox will fund Monash's Transport and Logistics Industry Health and Wellbeing Research Study.  The research will seek to identify risk factors affecting health, safety and wellbeing of workers in the transport and logistics workers sector;  these include factors that can be modified, or are amenable to change.  Researchers will also describe changes in health, safety, and wellbeing of transport and logistics workers over time and benchmark this relative to workers in other industries.

Monash University researcher Professor Alex Collie says past research has focused on driver fatigue and safety, but this will be Ausatralia's first study of health and wellbeing of workers in the sector.