Airline pilot cosmic radiation and circadian disruption exposure assessment from logbooks and company records

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 465-475

  Grajewski, Barbara ^a   Waters, Martha A ^a   Yong, Lee C ^a   Tseng, Chih Yu ^a   Zivkovich, Zachary ^a   Cassinelli Ii, Rick T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

circadian disruption; cosmic radiation; exposure assessment; flight crew; pilots

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE; AIR CABIN; AIRLINE PILOTS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CIRCADIAN DISRUPTION; COMMERCIAL AIRLINES; COMPARISON GROUP; EFFECTIVE DOSE; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; EXPOSURE MISCLASSIFICATION; FLIGHT CREWS; FLIGHT TIME; HEALTH-STUDY; MILITARY FLYING; PILOTS; QUESTIONNAIRE DATA; SLEEP DISTURBANCES; SOLAR PARTICLE EVENTS; TIME ZONES; US AIRLINES; WORKPLACE EXPOSURE;

AIR TRANSPORTATION; COSMIC RAYS; HEALTH RISKS; IONIZING RADIATION; RATING; TAXICABS;

COSMOLOGY;

ARTICLE; AVIATION; COSMIC RADIATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLEEP DISORDER; TIME; UNITED STATES;

AVIATION; CHRONOBIOLOGY DISORDERS; COSMIC RADIATION; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECORDS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959500310     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: 14753162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annhyg/mer024     Document Type: Article

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