Cold Weather Preparedness
Wearing several of these allows you to add or remove clothing as your activity level and conditions change.
What are layers?
This is often one of the first things a coworker may notice when someone is becoming dangerously cold.
What is uncontrollable shivering?
Before treating an injury, this is one of the first things you should do to determine what happened and what type of first aid is needed.
What is assess the injury?
Before using any aircraft maintenance tool, you should check it for this.
What is damage and calibration?
If a torque wrench is dropped, this is what must happen before it can be used again.
What is send it to the manufacturer?
Before beginning outdoor work, employees should check this along with the temperature because it can dramatically change how cold conditions feel.
What is the wind chill?
These three areas of the body are especially important to keep covered and insulated because they are vulnerable to cold injury.
What are the head, hands, and feet?
This is the first step you should take to control bleeding from a wound.
What is applying direct pressure?
This document provides the manufacturer’s approved procedures, limits, and instructions for performing many aircraft maintenance tasks.
What is the Aircraft Maintenance Manual (AMM)?
Before leaving the Parts Room with a torque wrench, verify these two things to make sure the tool is ready for use.
What are matching the serial number on the wrench to the case and checking the calibration date?
Keeping extra clothing, food, water, a flashlight, and emergency supplies in your vehicle during winter is commonly known as this.
What is a winter emergency kit?
Shivering, numbness, loss of coordination, confusion, and slurred speech can be warning signs of this dangerous cold-related condition.
What is hypothermia?
For a minor thermal burn, this should be used to cool the affected area.
What is cool running water?
After completing a maintenance task, technicians should perform this practice to ensure tools, hardware, and debris have not been left behind.
What is a FOD/tool check?
This is the most common type of torque wrench used in aircraft maintenance.
What is a click-type torque wrench?
When working outside in winter, this type of footwear provides better traction on snow and ice and helps keep feet protected from cold and moisture.
What are insulated, slip-resistant boots?
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Ice cleats
Pale, waxy, or unusually firm skin accompanied by numbness may indicate this cold injury, commonly affecting fingers, toes, ears, and the nose.
What is frostbite?
If a person is unconscious but breathing normally and has no suspected spinal injury, placing them in this position can help keep their airway clear.
What is the recovery position?
This type of aircraft hardware is commonly used to prevent a nut from backing off when installed with a drilled bolt or stud.
What is a castellated nut with a cotter pin?
After reaching the desired torque with a click-type torque wrench, this is what you should do instead of continuing to pull.
What is stop applying force after the wrench clicks?
Cotton can hold moisture and lose insulation when wet, so these two materials are better choices for cold-weather base and insulating layers.
What are wool and synthetic materials?
At −40°F, exposed skin can develop frostbite in roughly this amount of time when winds are around 15 mph.
What is about 10 minutes?
This life-threatening condition occurs when the body’s organs and tissues are not receiving enough blood flow and oxygen, and may cause pale, cool, clammy skin, rapid breathing, and weakness.
What is shock?
When a maintenance procedure specifies a torque value, this factor involving the threads can significantly change the actual clamping force even when the same torque is applied.
What is thread condition or lubrication?
When an adapter changes the effective lever length of a torque wrench, this formula is used to determine the correct wrench setting.
What is TW = (TA × L) ÷ (L + A)?