Flight Safety and Cabin Crew Communication

Cabin Crew Safety November-December 1990

In everyday speech, the phrases “human factors” and “the human factor” frequently refer to individual quirks of behavior which may be irrational and difficult to explain and which can be called upon, in the absence of any hardware failure, to account for unfortunate events such as accidents. Implicit in this everyday usage is the notion that behavior is unpredictable and that the addition of a ...

Integrating Safety and Crew Resource Management (CRM) Aspects in the Recurrent Training of Cabin Crew Members

Recurrent training of cabin crew should include theoretical and practical instruction on safety as well as crew resource management (CRM) issues. The endeavors of Swiss International Air Lines Ltd. and Swiss Aviation Training Ltd. to integrate CRM and safety aspects into a single training module were evaluated. The objective of the integration was to make CRM more tangible and ease acquisition ...

Exposure of airline pilots and cabin crew to cosmic radiation during flight--what's the fuss?

The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) had in 1990 recommended that civilian aircrew be classified as being occupationally exposed to low-dose ionizing radiation, in view of their increased exposure to cosmic rays at altitude. In 2000, the European Union had gone ahead with legislation which requires all European airlines to monitor cosmic radiation levels during flight ...

Cancer incidence in airline cabin crew.

R ecent reports highlighting increased cancer incidence and mortality among airline pilots and cabin crew have raised concerns about potential exposure of these workers to known or suspected carcinogens, in particular cosmic ionising radiation. Higher radiation dose rates are found at higher altitudes and in the polar regions, and mean doses to flight crew have been increasing over time as long...

Flight Crew Decision- Making