Working healthy
Subtitle: a manual on health techniques for aviators, maintainers, and aircraft builders
By: James W. Allen
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Brundage Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Birmingham, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781892451569
Subjects: Aviation medicine; Handbooks, manuals; Astronautics; Human factors; Human engineering; Aeronautics; Safety measures
Other titles: Manual on health techniques for aviators, maintainers, and aircraft builders
Table of contents: title: pt. I. Improve your health at work : learning from previous experience. Chemical overexposures ; Conserving your hearing ; Good advice : BeeBee tells me how to fit an earplug ; Power tools in your hands ; Case study : investigating pneumatic tools used on composite aircraft, Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, 1995 ; Selecting hand tools ; Guidance : checklist for ergonomic tool acquisition ; Guidance : what are general considerations for tool selection? ; Ergonomic injuries ; Good advice : the ergonomics of a simple oil change ; Protecting your lungs ; Guidance : your natural filtration systems ; Guidance : when should I use a respirator? ; Guidance : how do I know that this respirator is working? ; Guidance : does this respirator need any maintenance? Does it wear out? ; Guidance : I want to build an airplane, not a safety department! ; Contact with fuels ; Case study : no return call from the fuel truck. OSHA Report, Major Airport, 1993 ; Good advice : why one maintainer refuses to be around paint ; How solvents may affect you ; Case study : organic solvent toxicity without toxic airborne levels, National Naval Medical Center, Maryland, 2000 and Engineered Fabric Corporation, Georgia, 2000 ; Caring for your skin ; Airframe work exposures to metals, composites and cleaners.; title: pt. II. Medical details on the exposures common to aircraft and the airport environment. Protecting your hearing ; Ergonomics for airplane people ; Kerosene-based fuel ; Gasoline engine exhaust ; Diisocyanates in paint ; How solvents may affect you ; Organic solvents at low levels of exposure ; Caring for your skin ; Contact dermatitis, an insult to your skin ; Airframe work : toxic metals and citrus based cleaners.; title: pt. III. Specific exposures. Working in the heat ; Working in the cold ; Are you comfortable in the work area? ; Bird droppings ; Lavatory and challenges of biological transport ; Protecting yourself at the accident scene ; Fire-resistant hydraulic fluids ; Dopes ; Exposure to heavy metals ; Health hazards from simultaneous exposures.; title: pt. IV. Recognizing environmental exposures in your workplace. Recognizing and controlling overexposures ; Measuring the environment ; The regulatory apporach; title: pt. V. Your commitment to working healthy, always. Over exposure and individual responsibility.