Commercial air lines.

Details

• Personal Author:
  Lederer LG
• Description:
  Health and safety aspects of the worker traveling by air are briefly considered. Included are physical fitness for air travel, incidence of unscheduled landings for medical reasons, participation of passenger doctors in medical care of other passengers, medical equipment on board the airplane, handicapped passengers, use of oxygen for passengers, smoking sections, smoking habits of crew, preflight and postflight time to avoid unnecessary rushing and risk of heart attack, alcoholic beverages on board, low humidity in the cabin and cockpit area affecting such things as contact lenses and fluid balance, medications of passengers, and immunizations for foreign travel. It is concluded that air travel is very safe for everyone, including the old, weak and infirm. (Contract No. 210-76-0118) [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Aerospace Medicine Aircraft Delivery Of Health Care Emergencies Emergency Responders Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Contract; Contract-210-76-0118; Air-transportation; Aircraft; Aerospace-medicine; Aerospace-environment; Aerospace-safety; Aerospace-workers; Emergencies; Medical-care; Emergency-care; Control-measures;
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DTS - Division of Technical Services
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  107-110
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00074705
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1977 Jul; :107-110
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1977
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational Safety and Health Symposia 1976, Division of Technical Services, NIOSH, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/236893/cdc_236893_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]