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Publikováno v:
Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance. 92:798-805
INTRODUCTION: Each year in Canada, there are a number of pilots and passengers who die in seaplane water accidents. A study examining the human factors and fatality rates associated with these accidents was conducted. METHODS: Seaplane water accident
Autor:
Chris J. Brooks, Conor V MacDonald
Publikováno v:
Aerospace medicine and human performance. 91(2)
INTRODUCTION: In Canada, aviators and seafarers are required to be medically fit by international and domestic standards to be issued a medical certificate by Transport Canada (TC). In the event of denial or restriction, individuals have the right to
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics. 54:19-25
Introduction Canadian drowning rates for children are high and an increased demand for child flotation devices with novel designs is expected. This experiment was conducted to: 1) record the donning performance of life jackets on children/infants usi
Publikováno v:
Journal of Ergonomics.
Canada published a new lifejacket standard in 2007, but at the time the literature on infant lifejacket performance was sparse and did not guide creation of the standard. Since that time the authors conducted a series of trials on currently available
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics. 17:15-23
Laboratories and test houses keep a "pool" of test subjects that volunteer to be participants in life jacket approval testing, which is believed to be an incorrect procedure. Fifty-six participants donned 8 child/infant life jackets onto 4 infant man
Publikováno v:
Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine. 81:683-687
Introduction When a helicopter ditches the majority of crew and passengers have to make an underwater escape. Some may not be able to hold their breath and will drown. For at least 15 yr, military aircrew have been trained to use a scuba system. In t
Publikováno v:
Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine. 81:399-404
INTRODUCTION: Coincidental stimulation of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system can cause "autonomic conflict" and consequent cardiac arrhythmias. The present study tested the hypotheses that: 1) cardiac arrhythmias would be seen in thos
Autor:
Kimberly A. Howard, Scott MacKinnon, Danika Drover, Sherma L. Dewey, Robert Brown, Chris J. Brooks, John McCabe, John W. Kozey
Publikováno v:
Occupational Ergonomics. 8:67-79
Representative samples of offshore workers engaged in the use of totally enclosed lifeboats were recruited in two different regions of Atlantic Canada for this study. Body mass, height and three selected anthropometric dimensions were measured with a
Publikováno v:
Scopus-Elsevier
This study provides information on structural dimensions of offshore workers with and without a helicopter passenger suit. Forty-one structural measures, with and without a helicopter passenger suit, were obtained from 42 subjects (38 M, 4 F). The st
Publikováno v:
Scopus-Elsevier
This study provides information on the affects of immersion suit wear on the maximum reach envelope of industrial offshore workers. In this study the total maximum reach envelope was measured using a computerized potentiometric system which records t