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Crewing and Seafarers’ Fatigue: The International Perspective
(Cardiff University Centre for Occupational and Health Psychology)
 Application of OSHA's Requirements to Employees
on Aircraft in Operation (FAA/OSHA
Aviation Safety and Health Team, December 2000)
Association
of Flight Attendants Air Safety and Health Department
Baggage
Handling (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
Carcinogenicity
of Diesel ExhaustChapter
7 of Health Assessment Document for Diesel Exhaust, where EPA
concludes that diesel exhaust is a "probable human carcinogen."
Click here
for the complete Health Assessment. (U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Research and Development, 2000)
Commercial
Motor Vehicles: Effectiveness of Actions Being Taken to Improve
Motor Carrier Safety Is Unknown Investigators
can't determine whether the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
is a success or failure (U.S. General Accounting Office, 2000)
Evaluation
of the Rollover Propensity of 15-Passenger Vans
(National Transportation Safety Board)
Fatigue
Kills! Cut drivers’ hours now! (International Transport
Workers' Federation)
Federal
Motor Carrier Safety Administration (U.S. Department
of Transportation)
Health
and Safety (Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
- U.K.)
Imminent
Danger: The Life & Death Struggle for Safe Jobs and Safety
Awareness (Transport Workers Union of America,1993)
The
London Underground: Dust and Hazards to Health (Occupational
and Environmental Medicine, 2005)
LongShoring
(OSHA Preamble to Final Rule)
 El
Manejo de Equipaje (Occupational Safety and Health Administration,
2002)
Motor
Vehicle Safety (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
National
Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
New
York State Department of Transportation Safety Bulletin Index
Occupational
Health (U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, Civil Aeromedical
Institute)
Occupational
Health in Civil Aviation (International Transport Workers'
Federation)
Office
of Hazardous Materials Safety (U.S. Department of Transportation)
Preventing
Worker Injuries and Deaths from Traffic-Related Motor Vehicle
Crashes (NIOSH)
Radiation
Exposure Aloft -- Are You Being Nuked? (AV Web)
Radiation-Induced
Acute Myeloid Leukaemia and Other Cancers in Commercial Jet Cockpit
Crew: A Population-Based Cohort Study – The study shows
that male cockpit crew members in jets flying more than 5000
hours have significantly increased frequency of acute myeloid
leukaemia. (The Lancet, December 11, 1999). See also this
follow-up study: Cytogenetics
of myelodysplasia and acute myeloid leukaemia in aircrew and
people treated with radiotherapy (The Lancet, December
23, 2000)
Ready
Mixed Concrete Truck Drivers: Work-Related Hazards and Recommendations
for Controls (Construction
Hygiene and Ergonomics Program, Mount Sinai-Irving J. Selikoff
Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine)
The
Rollover Propensity of Fifteen-Passenger Vans (Research
finds that a fully-loaded 15-passenger van is 40 percent more
like to roll over than one occupied by 10 passengers and that
a fully-loaded van has dangerous handling properties, U.S. Department
of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
2001)
Safety
and Health (International Brotherhood of Teamsters)
Sales
Route Driver Hazard Datasheet (International Labour Organization)
School
Bus Drivers and Repetitive Stress Injuries (National
Education Association, 1999)
Seafarer
Fatigue Where Next? (International Transport Workers'
Federation
Seaman/Seawoman
Hazard Datasheet (International Labour Organization)
Stress
Prevention for Bus Drivers (International Labour Organization)
Stress
Prevention in Air Traffic Control (International Labour
Organization)
Transport
Workers' Health and Safety (Transport Workers Union of
America)
Transportation
of Infectious Substances
(International Brotherhood of Teamsters)
Truck
Driver Hazard Datasheet (International Labour Organization)
What
You Should Know About the Air You Breathe at Work: Aircraft
Air Quality and You (Association of Flight Attendants)
Workplace
Safety Program (National Transit Institute) |
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Union Presses for Track
Safety Regulations —
Transport Workers Union Local 100 scored an impressive initial
victory on June 2, 2003, when the Hazard Abatement Board of the
New York State Department of Labor, at the urging of public sector
unions, held a public hearing to assess the need for a standard
for subway track work safety.  (NYCOSH Safety Rep, July
2003)
NYC
Transport Workers Win a Safer, More Healthful Workplace — After
a week of tense and sometimes bitter contract talks, negotiators
for Transport Workers Union Local 100 and New York City Transit
(NYCT) agreed to a 3-year contract that includes very significant
new safety-related provisions. Because the post-settlement media
coverage focused almost exclusively on the financial terms of
the contract, its remarkable safety and health language was largely
ignored, to the dismay of union officials. "The safety and
health language we won is unbelievable. It's going to set the
industry standard," Local 100 vice president John Samuelsen
told NYCOSH. (NYCOSH Update on Safety
and Health, December 23, 2002)
Blood on TA's Hands, Union Tells DA — The
recent deaths of two subway track workers were not accidents
but crimes, transit union officials charged yesterday. Union
officials met with a Manhattan prosecutor yesterday to demand
a grand jury investigation into the Nov. 21 death of Joy Antony
and the death of Baby Kurien the next night. "It's our belief
that these were flat-out cases of negligent homicide on the part
of New York City Transit," said John Samuelsen, an official
with Transport Workers Union Local 100. "They [transit officials]
were given prior notice that there was a condition that could
result in the loss of life, and they failed to take corrective
action." (Daily News, December 3)
Killed in the Subway They Tried to Make Safer for Others
— The subway workers and their policy manuals refer to them
in a kind of industrial language: point-to-point signals, train
approach warnings, relays. But they are, simply, lights. Lights
brought to dark tunnels so that workers may work in safety and
train motormen may know they are there. There are entire work
gangs that touch only lights — installing them, testing
them, changing them, retesting them, cleaning them. (New York Times, November
29)
After 2 Deaths, Transit Agency Tightens Rules for Subway
Work — New York City Transit announced yesterday
that it would make sweeping changes to the safety rules for 7,000
subway employees who work on or near the tracks, after two workers
were struck and killed by trains in two days last week. The changes,
which officials described as the most extensive in their memory,
will mean that many more trains must make full stops instead
of simply slowing down near track work sites, raising the possibility
of more delays throughout the system. The changes will probably
also require hiring more workers or paying more overtime, thus
costing the agency more money in a time of serious budget problems.
(New York Times, November
28, 2002)
Keeping Peril at Bay for Track Workers Involves
More Than Just Questions of Safety — They are like
ghosts in the dark tunnels, sometimes glimpsed out the window
of a passing subway train, huddled in an alcove or standing
between the girders that divide local and express tracks. They
seem to be doing nothing, but that is just an illusion. Almost
any movement — even a few inches — could be deadly,
and they are pausing only while the danger rumbles past. They
used to be known as gandy dancers, after the railway section-gang
tools once made by the Gandy Manufacturing Company of Chicago.
Today, New York City Transit calls them maintenance-of-way workers:
the 7,000 keepers of the tracks, signals, switches, lights and
other equipment along the 722-mile subway system. (New York Times, November 26, 2002)
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