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Working Healthy

by James Allen, MD, MPH

Publisher:

Aircraft Technical Book Company

ISBN-13:

9781892451569

2006

Pages:

248

Binding:

Paperback

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1st Mechanic: I'd like to work on Doc Allen's airplane, but my hands get numb when I use tools.
2nd Mechanic: If I'm around any more paint or vapor, my next asthma attack will kill me.
3rd Mechanic: Did you say something?

This is a "no excuses" book that belongs with every A&P student, mechanic, technician, and aircraft builder. Or at the very least, it belongs with every repair station library, and with every training and repair station manager.

Working Healthy is a manual on health and safety techniques written by an aviation medical examiner specifically for the aviation technician. Learn how to protect yourself from the many risks and long term health issues common in an aviation facility. Learn to advise and protect your most valuable assets (your employees and students), and in doing so reduce absenteeism, job delays, and your company's Workman's Compensation premiums. Just one prevented minor injury will pay for this book 100 times over.

Dozens of common health risks including lifting, toxic metals and chemicals, ear and eye protection, heat and cold exposure, tool handling, to the ergonomics of a simple oil change are covered in depth but written and illustrated to be clearly understandable without medical experience.

Learn how to properly fit an ear plug and a respirator.
Learn how to select tools that match your hand and the job.
Learn about skin protection
Learn how to avoid toxic fumes from the dozens of sources around every aviation facility.
Learn about biological issues including around lavatories and bird droppings.
Learn how to recognize if a liquid or solid substance will make you sick.
Learn to protect yourself from repetitive motion injuries.

Each of these issues and many others are discussed, including their causes, recognition of danger signs, recommended methods of performing the job, methods of prevention and what to do if a situation or symptoms occur.

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Chemical Over exposures
Conserving You Hearing
- how to fit an ear plug
Power Tools in your Hands
- pneumatic tool use on composite airplanes
Selecting Hand Tools
- checklist for ergonomic tool acquisition
- general considerations for tool selection
Ergonomic Injuries
- muscle aches and back pain
- ergonomics of a simple oil change
Protecting Your Lungs
- grinding spraying, and sanding
- preventing particles from entering your lungs
- when to use a respirator
- how to know if a respirator is working
- maintaining respirators
"I Want to Build an Airplane - Not a Safety Department"
Contact With Fuels
- liquid fuels and carbon monoxide vapor
- case study - no return call from the fuel truck
Painting - Medical Implications
- case study - we lost a valuable talent because of exposure to a specific chemical in paint
How Solvents Affect You
- case study - why these mechanics can't walk - how 3 mechanics inadvertantly advanced medical knowledge about how nerves work
Caring For Your Skin
- skin protects you from the outside environment, but this protection fails when skin becomes irritated
Exposures to Metyals, Composites, and Cleaners
- case studies from Douglas Aircraft Company, Finnish Aircraft Industry, and Aerospatiale

PART TWO - DETAILS OF EXPOSURES COMMON TO AIRCRAFT AND AIRPORTS

Protecting Your Hearing
- noise induced hearing loss
- the audiogram: detecting a threshold shift
- protecting your hearing
- effects of noise beyond hearing
Ergonomics For Airplane People
- neck strains
- shoulder strains and rotor cuff tears
- low back pain
- ergonomics in action
Kerosene Based Fuels
- applying exposure limits to aircraft fueling
- biological effects from fuels
- what to do when exposed to kerosene based fuels
Gasoline Engine Exhaust
- effects and symptoms of carbon monoxide
- measuring carbon monoxide
- delayed effects of carbon monoxide poisoning
- saving a victim of carbon monoxide poisoning
Paint
- asthma caused by Diisocyanates in paint
- protecting yourself while painting
How Solvents Affect You
- MEK - Methyl Ethyl Ketone
- Detecting MEK
- Working Healthy with MEK and other solvents
- high and low level solvent exposure
Caring For Your Skin
- a skin welness program
- maintaining healthy hands
- barrier creams and moisturizers
Contact Dermatitis
- irritant and allergic dermatitis
- determining the source of dermatitis
- working techniques and skin disease
Toxic Metals & Citrus Based Cleaners
- Cadmium
- Beryllium
- preventing toxic metal exposure
- citrus based cleaners

PART THREE - SPECIFIC EXPOSURES

Working In Heat
- the body's response to heat
- disorders caused by heat stress
- preventing heat related disorders
Working in Cold
- the body's response to cold
- preventing cold related disorders
Are You Comfortable in The Work Area
- the comfort zone concept
- investigating the quality of indoor air
- job satisfaction, fatigue, and air quality
Bird Droppings
Lavatory Challenges & Biological Transport
- repairing a lavatory
- good work practice for LAV repairs
- the cold chain
Accident Scenes
- accident scene as a work site
- biological hazards at accident scenes
- bloodborne pathogen program
- protecting yourself as an accident investigator
Fire Resistant Hydraulic Fluids
- medical effects and work practices
Dopes
- best practices when doping fabric airplanes
Exposure to Heavy Metals
- depleted uranium
- healh effects of depleted uranium
Effects of Simultaneous Exposures
- chemical exposure in weather extremes
- repeated fuel and solvent exposure
- accelerated hearing loss; noise and fuel exposure
- postural stability; organic solvents

PART FOUR - RECOGNIZING ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES IN THE WORKPLACE

Recognizing and Controlling Overexposures
- measuring overexposure
- will this substance make me sick?
- using PEL and TLV to protect your health
- the safety hierarchy
Measuring the Environment
- airborne exposure
- sound measurements
- other hazards
The Regulatory Approach
- the occupational safety and health act
- the general duty clause
- chance of an inspection by OSHA
- the hazard communication standard
Overexposure and Individual Responsibility
What Working Healthy Really Means