Ground personnel and fumes....
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Ground personnel and fumes....
What are the effects on ground personnel and the fumes they have to ingest in daily life???
I hear that diesel and JETA1 offer carcinogenic fumes as a result...
Tugs, gpu's, air starts and a/c engines all spurt out this stuff.....
So what's the verdict on ground crew and poison ingestion????
I hear that diesel and JETA1 offer carcinogenic fumes as a result...
Tugs, gpu's, air starts and a/c engines all spurt out this stuff.....
So what's the verdict on ground crew and poison ingestion????
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I would say negligable from a pilots point of view. However, from a ground operatives point of view I would say v.serious. I have worked on the ramp at manchester and can say most of the vehicles are absolute crap and its very easy to suddely walk into a large cloud of diesel fumes, lovely. Cant imagine its worse than smoking though.
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I would say negligable from a pilots point of view. However, from a ground operatives point of view I would say v.serious. I have worked on the ramp at manchester and can say most of the vehicles are absolute crap and its very easy to suddely walk into a large cloud of diesel fumes, lovely. Cant imagine its worse than smoking though.
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1. OSHA regulations require that ALL employees be given upon request the MSDS
sheets for all potentially hazardous substances, furthermore if you feel the need, you should be properly fitted for a respirator.
2. We are all exposed to carcinogenic subtances, and long term danger to such exposures in the modern world are very complex; is cancer more common nowadays BECAUSE folks generally live longer?
3 Is the 'carcinogenicity' of specified substanced affrmed through real world data' Look at the asbestos industry as an an example
4. Most hydrocarbons especially those with a aromatic constituents ARE carcinogenic
5. The human body is very capable of self repair [DNA repair enzymes for example] or via the immune system that according to Burnett's Immune surveillance theory [our bodies are continually 'making abnormal cells' but these are destroyed in 99.99% of cases
Eat right, excercise, sleep if you can and get your physicals in the meanwhile
To the Ramp on point-six
rhov
sheets for all potentially hazardous substances, furthermore if you feel the need, you should be properly fitted for a respirator.
2. We are all exposed to carcinogenic subtances, and long term danger to such exposures in the modern world are very complex; is cancer more common nowadays BECAUSE folks generally live longer?
3 Is the 'carcinogenicity' of specified substanced affrmed through real world data' Look at the asbestos industry as an an example
4. Most hydrocarbons especially those with a aromatic constituents ARE carcinogenic
5. The human body is very capable of self repair [DNA repair enzymes for example] or via the immune system that according to Burnett's Immune surveillance theory [our bodies are continually 'making abnormal cells' but these are destroyed in 99.99% of cases
Eat right, excercise, sleep if you can and get your physicals in the meanwhile
To the Ramp on point-six
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Standing at the front hold on a 737 with a gpu running isn't much fun i can tell you! Especially the old diesel gpu's used where I am, you should see the cloud of black smoke they kick out when you start them up! and we're breathing it in 
