| Flight Attendants Helping Flight Attendants
What should I do if I
am involved in a critical incident when I am at work?
As safety professionals,
flight attendants are typically at greater risk of
experiencing traumatic events during the course of our duty
period, either on the aircraft or off. Use of a defibrillator,
turbulence with or without injury, decompression, hotel
accident, passenger assault, security breeches, just to name a
few.
If you are involved in either
an accident or incident on your trip, please notify either one
of us quickly as you are able to do so:
Barrington Johnson, USA AFA
MEC ASHS
1-336-918-1022
BJohnson@afausairways.org
Deborah McCormick, USA AFA
MEC EAP
1-401-225-1459
dmccormick@afausairways.org
For over decade, AFA and US
Airways worked together as a team to provide Critical Incident
Response Services-CIRP, not only the USA flight attendants,
but to the employees here at USA. Notification came
through the USA flex alert system that included both your MEC
ASHS and MEC EAP chairpersons with timely notification of
these events. The information that was released to USA AFA was
the nature of the event, the flight number/tail number,
location of the crew, etc. As soon both USA MEC AFA ASHS and
USA MEC AFA EAP would receive the notification, then AFA begin
the process of reaching out to the affected crew involved in
the event.
At the time of the merger,
the USA flex alert system experienced technical difficulties
that were not able to be repaired. USA has told USA MEC AFA
that they are in the process of establishing a new and
improved system which should be up and running in the weeks
ahead that would include both your AFA MEC EAP and AFA MEC
ASHS chairperson with timely, accurate notification.
USA MEC EAP
Chairperson
Deborah A. McCormick
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