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????

Hi
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.

Mister-Sheep

I once asked my nurse if there were any tests she could do to determain the amount of poisons I was ingesting at work... She didn't know of any... And that was the end of that!!

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? :E

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 :ok:

Eat right, excercise, sleep if you can and get your physicals in the meanwhile

To the Ramp on point-six
rhov :)

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 :sad:

Sorry OSHA's US, but still see the MSDS [material safety data sheet]and get fitted for a respirator,in the mean time a mask may help filter larger particulate matter.

NO PT :ok: :}

rhov :)