Safety Health and Environmental Engineering

Running Head: SAFETY HEALTH AND ENVIRONEMNTAL ENGINEERING
FLIGHT 5481
Safety Health and Environmental Engineering
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Introduction
It has been found that on January 2003, Fight 5481 went on crash shortly after takeoff from
runway 18R, international airport which is located at North Carolina. It was very sad incident in
which two flight crew members and around 19 passengers lost their life due to lack of health and
safety system. In this incident one person received minor injury from health prospect while
working on the ground level. Plan crash happened due to health and safety reasons (CBS news,
2020). Flight 5481 like any other flight was regularly scheduled for passenger to Greenville to
Spartanburg which is located at South Carolina. This flight was operated under 14 code of
federal regulations part 12. In addition to this, it has been found that visual meteorological
conditions overcame during the time of incident. After the crash incident, National transportation
safety board has hold two days meeting in which five board members were included in order to
investigation regarding Midwest flight 5481 incident happened at North Carolina (CNN, 2004).
This report includes the overview of Flight 5481 crash incident along with possible causes which
has happened during and after flight take off. This report is also focused on risk management
associated with this incident. It also includes the possible solution from environmental
engineering. In addition, it also increases possible suggestion which could have prevented this
tragic incident.
Incident of fight 5481
Hearing was scheduled on May 20th and was hold for two days. A deep investment was
conducted with the help of survivors, engineering team and other members. Investigation also
focused on further development of informational issues which may include company reputation,
operations, training and other management insights. It has been find out that it was duty of
federal aviation administration responsibility to respond to the future information regarding
passenger weight and airplane load (Hobbs, 2008). This investigation further moved in the form
of questioning witnesses along with five NTBS members along with technical panel
investigators. Also structural modification and repair technicians department was also involved
in the investigation.
Health safety system
Health plays can be considered one of the major issues in plan accident because aviation
environment is always connected with potential risk related to range of hazards and therefore it is
very important to manage these hazards in order to prevent occurrence of possible hazards.
Aviation work environment is linked with direct human contact and therefore risk associated to
health is more. In this situation, it is very to maintain a health safety policy in order to provide
safe work environment (Durso and Drews, 2010). But it has been found that Flight 5481 did not
crash due to any health concept. But it has been found that some health safety rules were
overlooked but still things were not beyond that level which can cause this accident. Reason
behind accident of this crash was mechanical fault and failure in engineering procedure during

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maintenance. There are various type of work process linked with aviation and therefore pattern
of risk also differ along with reason of cause. These different causes lead to accidents and ill
health situations in this industry. Incidents can be related to turnaround activities, possibility of
risk during baggage handling process, risk related to musculoskeletal disorder and hazards of
working at height. In addition, it is very important to focus on health of every employees as well
as passenger travelling in the flight along with food and hygiene rules. It is very important to
ensure risk related to health in aviation work environment because it is one of the important steps
which ensure health safety of workers as well as passengers in the flight as well as people
working as ground worker. It has been found that Flight 5481 has violated these important
factors. People in USA prefer airline travel as compared to road travel on annual base. When
these people enter aircraft cabin very less people are aware that they are being protected with
artificial environment which is being created in order to ensure their health (Sampigethaya and
Poovendran, 2013). During flight passengers are mostly exposed to decrease in atmosphere
pressure due to decrease in oxygen, vibration and sometimes temperature reduced to zero degree
temperature which can have direct impact on skin. Even various research reports have exposed
that both technical and quality issues are responsive for accidents. Increase in air quality can lead
to various impact such as trauma or even nose bleeding. Also sometimes air range also increase
while boarding on flight which imposes threat to flight safety and gives birth to fear (Toff, 2010).
In this, situation health safety system helps in identifying these syndromes and immediately
focuses their attention in order to ensure safe environment which was overlooked in Flight 5481.
There is also possibility of deep vein thrombosis because of tight confines. In this situation,
health safety system tries to divert attention of the passenger by offering them magazines along
with music facilities. Due to continuous sitting person can face issue related to their body stress
and in this situation, health safety system can offer them high quality seats which ensure comfort
along with safety belt which will resist the unwanted motion of passengers (Oster Jr, Strong and
Zorn, 2013). Therefore, it has become essential for aviation to include medical kit in their flight
in order to handle emergency situation because at 35,000 ft no other facilities can be offered to
passengers. Therefore, flight crew must be offer training which will include medical program
that include procedures as well as medicines so that first aids help can be provided to passenger.
In addition, aviation federal must ensure that they must have at least one physician present in
their flight which can handle these situations (Ricci and Brumsted, 2012). It has been seen that
transmission disease spread much faster than other disease and there is maximum chances that
other passenger may get affected by diseases and hence health safety system has become
significant for every flight.
Cause and out come
Then, National transportation safety boards have explored that the most probable reason for this
accident was due to loss of pitch control while take off. It has been found that due to loss of pitch
control, incorrect ringing was elevated in the elevator control system which was compounded by
airplane center of gravity. It has been explored that there were numerous number of cause which