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Personal Protective Equipment

These articles about PPE are in order by the date they were added.  Most recent additions appear at the top.   

Who Wants to Take a Skydrol Shower?, by AME1(AW) J. S. Blanks, A lack of ground-crew coordination and PPE ends with two maintainers wet and irritated.

Red Rock Gathers Road Rash, by AO1 Jeff Asbell, Even an experienced Sailor can be bitten by the hazards on the flight deck.

Hearing the Safety Officer, by LCdr. Mark Stansell, Hearing loss is a serious problem in aviation maintenance.  This safety officer has something to say about it.

Faulty Door Causes Fall, by AD1(AW) J. W. Zucconi, Two maintainers are surprised when a door designed as a work platform collapses. They fall to the deck, but their PPE prevents serious injury.

One Hot Night, by AO2(AW) J. Longacre, Walking  into the forward clamshell without a cranial will make you bleed.

Cranial Saves the Day, by ADAN Vidal, Have you ever fallen off an aircraft? This Sailor did and survived because he wore a brain bucket.

The Almost Famous One-Eyed Dog, by AMSAN Michael W. McDowell, An incident with MEK makes an aircraft painter a strong advocate for wearing goggles.

Those "Stupid" Goggles, by AME1(AW) Glendon Arnold, Real-life story about the usefulness of safety goggles and how they saved some shipmates from injury.  

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This page was last updated on:  08 September, 2004