Air transport – OSH issues

Introduction

Air transportation is a large industry: 750 million passengers use the services of European airlines annually, and the number of jobs created directly by the industry was estimated to have reached 1.9 million in 2010.[1] The jobs can be divided into three main groups: the flight crew, the ground staff airside and the ground staff landside. Many of the workers are exposed to several risks and hazards at their workplace (e.g. time pressure, fatigue, long distance flying, aggressions from clients, dangerous substances, cosmic radiation). This OSH wiki article provides an overview about the hazards and risks in the air transport industry, including flight crew,…