Fitness-to-fly and the safety role of air cabin crew: personal, social and managerial challenges
Sander-Grout, Andrea (2021) Fitness-to-fly and the safety role of air cabin crew: personal, social and managerial challenges. PhD thesis, James Cook University.
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Abstract
Andrea Sander-Grout investigated the impact of cabin crew fitness-to-fly on flight safety and public health. She found that there is significant uncertainty surrounding crewmember exposure to occupational hazards, with potential impacts on flight safety, individual and public health. Aviation and public health stakeholders are using her results in policy development.
| Item ID: | 76705 |
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| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
| Keywords: | Asian passenger behavior, aviation food safety, blog analysis, cabin crew health, cabin crew, cultural similarities and differences, disease transmission, fitness-to–fly issues, food handler, food hygiene, foodborne disease, incident analysis, in-flight management, international air travel, narrative community, passenger safety |
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| Copyright Information: | Copyright © 2021 Andrea Sander-Grout. |
| Additional Information: | Two publications included in Chapters 2 and 5 have been redacted due to copyright restrictions. Four publications arising from this thesis are stored in ResearchOnline@JCU, at the time of processing. Please see the Related URLs. The publications are: Chapter 2: Grout, Andrea (2017) Managing Asian tourists on long-haul flights. In: Pearce, Philip L., and Wu, Mao-Ying, (eds.) The World Meets Asian Tourists. Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice, 7 . Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, UK, pp. 93-110. Chapter 4: Grout, Andrea, Howard, Natasha, Coker, Richard, and Speakman, Elizabeth M. (2017) Guidelines, law, and governance: disconnects in the global control of airline-associated infectious diseases. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 17 (4). pp. 118-122. Chapter 4: Sander-Grout, Andrea, and Russell, Richard C. (2021) Aircraft disinsection: what is the usefulness as a public health measure? Journal of Travel Medicine, 28 (2). Chapter 6: Grout, Andrea, and Leggat, Peter (2021) Cabin crew health and fitness-to-fly: opportunities for re-evaluation amid COVID-19. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 40. 101973. |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Nov 2022 01:25 |
| FoR Codes: | 42 HEALTH SCIENCES > 4202 Epidemiology > 420299 Epidemiology not elsewhere classified @ 33% 35 COMMERCE, MANAGEMENT, TOURISM AND SERVICES > 3505 Human resources and industrial relations > 350505 Occupational and workplace health and safety @ 34% 35 COMMERCE, MANAGEMENT, TOURISM AND SERVICES > 3508 Tourism > 350899 Tourism not elsewhere classified @ 33% |
| SEO Codes: | 20 HEALTH > 2004 Public health (excl. specific population health) > 200404 Disease distribution and transmission (incl. surveillance and response) @ 33% 20 HEALTH > 2005 Specific population health (excl. Indigenous health) > 200507 Occupational health @ 34% 11 COMMERCIAL SERVICES AND TOURISM > 1104 Tourism services > 110499 Tourism services not elsewhere classified @ 33% |
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