Patent ID: 8311702

Claim:
A health state management device which manages information on a state of health of a driver of transportation equipment, comprising: an authentication portion which authenticates the driver; a health state judgment portion which measures blood component data of the driver authenticated by the authentication portion, and which judges the state of health of the driver using the blood component data, the blood component data including a predetermined specific item and a plurality of other items, wherein each of the predetermined specific item and the plurality of other items has a range of acceptable values; a decision portion which decides whether or not to permit operation of the transportation equipment based on a judgment result of the health state judgment portion; and a storage portion which stores the judgment result of the health state judgment portion and a decision result of the decision portion in association with driver identification information of the driver, wherein the decision portion decides not to permit operation of the transportation equipment when a value of the predetermined specific item is not within its range of acceptable values, and wherein the decision portion decides not to permit operation of the transportation equipment when a number of the other items having values within their ranges of acceptable values is smaller than a prescribed number.