3.74 Captain Frank Kolver of NJS commented on the health effects he suffered following his exposure to fumes, an incident dealt with later in this report:
In my experience, after the first incident I seemed to become sensitive to very strong chemical smells. I think I noted in my submission an example of when I would go into a hardware store and walk past the shelf with insecticides and pesticides. If I continued to stay there, probably within the next 10-15 minutes I would start getting a headache. This was predominantly once again a pain in the left temple. Some other chemical effects were exhaust fumes from motor vehicles in dense traffic and some strong chemically based perfumes. They all seem to have some effect. If I did not do so something about getting away from the source, I would start trying to suffer a headache….The problem we want to solve here is to rectify the problem we have which we believe has been caused by oil fumes.78
78 Captain F Kolver, Evidence, 2 February 2000, p 149
CHAPTER FOUR
TESTING BAe 146 CABIN AIR FOR FUMES - AUSTRALIAN
INITIATIVES AND RESULTS
Study of toxic fumes on US aircraft
4.1 The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers’ Aviation Sub-committee to Technical Committee (TC) 9.3, Transportation Air Conditioning has been examining cabin air quality on passenger jet airliners. It must be noted that the ASHRAE study, and its findings, are not necessarily specific to the BAe 146 aircraft.
4.2 Writing in the ASHRAE Journal in September 1999 Dr Jolanda N. Janczewski, a member of the ASHRAE’s Aviation Sub-committee, stated:
The controversy surrounding airliner cabin air quality has been debated for some time. The perception that the air quality within commercial aircraft is the cause of, or can be associated with symptoms experienced by passengers and crew has been the subject of scientific, public and even congressional debate. However, despite numerous studies, meetings, seminars, hearings and press coverage, no definitive association between in-flight cabin air quality and symptoms has been identified.1
4.3 According to Dr Janczewski flight attendants asserted that:
… their workforce suffers from both long- and short-term health effects that are caused by pollutants or conditions within their working environments. They provide the committees with anecdotal stories about crewmembers (and sometimes passengers) experiencing headache, hypoxia, neurological disorders and other symptoms while onboard aircraft. To date, however, no scientific studies or data substantiating these assertions have been provided for the committees' review. 2
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