10.
As well as a record of unpleasant odours, from time to time fumes from lubricating oil used in the aircraft's engine have entered the aircraft's cabin.
The BAe 146 - Cabin Air Quality and Occupational Health
11.
There has been for some time an occupational health effect suffered by a number of aircrew and cabin crew flying the BAe 146.
12.
The record of a connection between an occupational environment problem and the manifestation of consequent health effects on staff, took time to recognise and a longer time to address.
13.
As a result those employees who have experienced the most severe health effects have had to either cease flying, transfer from flying on the BAe 146 to other aircraft types or take varying periods of time off work to recover.
14.
As the Committee details in the report, a number of these individuals are now in the process of pursuing claims in the appropriate tribunals. They are seeking compensation for the effects they claim result from exposure to poor quality or contaminated air in the BAe 146.
15.
As the Committee also details in the report, professional associations representing pilots and cabin crew flying the aircraft have become closely involved in the issue and have ensured that protection of their members' health has been a principal issue for consideration in remedying the problem with the BAe 146.
The BAe 146 - Recognising and Remedying the Cabin Air Problem
16.
A further focus of the report is on the response by the operators of the BAe 146 in Australia and the involvement to the problem of the aircraft maker, British Aerospace in assisting and advising operators.
17.
The Committee describes the design and engineering of the provision of cabin air on the BAe 146, and how this system was studied, monitored and modified to address the problem.
18.
In particular, the Committee highlights the remedial programs, largely in the hands of aircrew, which were set up by Ansett Airlines, operator of the majority of BAe 146 in Australia, and how these programs have resulted in detailed recording of events of poor cabin air quality on the aircraft.
19.
The re-design of the aircraft's air circulation system, and the consequent modification of all BAe 146 currently flying in the Australian passenger fleet, and the programs followed to complete those modifications are given in the report.
The BAe 146 - Cabin Air Quality and Air Safety
20.
In a number of places in this report, the Committee provides an account of the regulatory framework applying to cabin air quality in passenger aircraft.
21.
An important feature of the Committee's account of these regulations and standards is that all are enacted as regulations - or orders - under Australian and international aviation regulatory frameworks and are directed at ensuring that all aircraft have systems or appropriate standards for safe flight.
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