HUM 007

Fitness for duty

Three things you should be, in body and in mind.

Being fit for work means being physically and mentally rested.

You should be:

Strategies for medical fitness

Four examples, all part of a healthy lifestyle.

Some personal strategies that could be utilised to keep balanced and fit for duty include living a healthy lifestyle, for example:

Nine signs that personal fitness is lacking.

A lack of fitness shows in the mind as well as in the body.

Nine effects. A red arrow marks what goes up or down.

They are the same nine as the effects of fatigue in HUM 004.

One definition, ICAO’s and EASA’s. Either part, or both, makes a use problematic.

Problematic use of psychoactive substances

The use of one or more psychoactive substances by aviation personnel or an individual, in a way that:

ICAO and EASA

constitutes a direct hazard to the user or endangers the lives, health, or welfare of others

and/or

causes or worsens an occupational, social, mental or physical problem or disorder.

Four kinds of test, and what failing one can cost.

Failure to pass the test can result in your licence being revoked.

Three reasons you may be unable to work for a time.

Reasons for provisional inability to work may be that the licence holder is:

Under the influence of psychoactive substances.
Unfit to perform the duties due to injury, fatigue, sickness, stress, including critical incident stress or other similar causes.
Not meeting all competence-related requirements set out in the unit competence scheme.

Provisional inability is temporary. For suspension and revocation, see LAW 011.