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How can you participate? It’s easy! The Flight Attendant Health Collaborative seeks answers to Flight Attendant health issues.  How does you job effect your lung function? Can meditative movement improve your health? How does cabin air effect your health? Join today—the FA Health Study is also recruiting Flight Attendants from across the U.S. to take […]

The Relevance of Emotional Intelligence in Personnel Selection for High Emotional Labor Jobs

Although a large number of studies have pointed to the potential of emotional intelligence (EI) in the context of personnel selection, research in real-life selection contexts is still scarce. The aim of the present study was to examine whether EI would predict Assessment Center (AC) ratings of job-relevant competencies in a sample of applicants for […]

Clear Skies and Grey Areas: Flight Attendants’ Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Attitudes toward Smoke-Free Policy 25 Years since Smoking was Banned on Airplanes

Our objective was to provide descriptive data on flight attendant secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure in the work environment, and to examine attitudes toward SHS exposure, personal health, and smoke-free policy in the workplace and public places. Flight attendants completed a web-based survey of self-reported SHS exposure and air quality in the work environment. We assessed […]

Residential exposure to aircraft noise and hospital admissions for cardiovascular diseases: multi-airport retrospective study

Andrew W Correia quantitative analyst 1, Junenette L Peters assistant professor 2, Jonathan I Levy professor2, Steven Melly geographic information systems specialist3, Francesca Dominici professor, associate dean of information technology Download the article: Aircraft Noise and CVD admissions Objective: To investigate whether exposure to aircraft noise increases the risk of hospitalization for cardiovascular diseases in […]

Flying the smoky skies: secondhand smoke exposure of flight attendants

J. Repace. Tobacco Control 2004;13;i8-i19 Download the publication: FA smoking lit Flight attendants reported suffering greatly from SHS pollution on aircraft. Both government and airline sponsored studies concluded that SHS created an air pollution problem in aircraft cabins, while tobacco industry sponsored studies yielding similar data concluded that ventilation controlled SHS, and that SHS pollution […]