Mandatory to insure the air safety during take-off, aircraft deicing technicians in open-baskets endangers their health and safety on a daily basis. To the best of our knowledge, the ÉREST research team is the main team that has published a few studies focused on that topic. Their previous results highlight the fact that open-baskets technicians expressed being physically more tired than technicians in closed-baskets.
The objective of this thesis is to study the physical ergonomics of open-baskets deicing technicians. To do so, a critical literature review allowed us to contextualize the studied working situation and to choose a model of cardiac’s data processing. Furthermore, a field study was conduct in a Canadian airport during the winter season 2016-2017 which involved 12 open-baskets deicing technicians. This study allowed us to record 15h52 of videos, physiological and meteorological data.
The results of this study allowed a first identification of fatigue’s factors such as the realization of aspersion tasks of anti/deicing liquid, special ground control, tactile control and moving the basket and the truck. Besides, a first estimation of the prescribed physical recovery break was done.
It would be interesting to conduct a similar study including a more important population of deicing technicians and from diverse deicing centres. Indeed, this would allow the study of different stress factors and to cover, as best as possible, the entirety of possible causes.
| Date | 14 Jun 2018 |
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| Original language | French |
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| Awarding Institution | - École de technologie supérieure
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| Supervisor | Sylvie Nadeau (Supervisor), François Morency (Co-supervisor) & Kurt Landeau (Co-supervisor) |
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Le Floch, T. (Author),
Nadeau (Supervisor),
Morency (Co-supervisor) & Landeau (Co-supervisor),
14 Jun 2018Student thesis: Master's thesis › Master in Engineering: Engineering