Flight attendant suggested changing the safety announcement during the covid-19 pandemic to include ...

Narrative:

At the present time we are faced with covid-19. Here in the us and other parts of the world people are told to wear mask or ppe to protect themselves. While our passengers on [airline name] are wearing masks; bandanas and other items to cover their nose and mouths no where in our safety demonstrations or announcements do we tell them how or what to do in a decompression during covid-19. Shouldn't we change our announcement to say 'if needed; oxygen masks will drop from an overhead compartment. Remain seated with your seat belt fastened and pull the mask down to start the flow of oxygen. Remove your personal mask or protective equipment from around your nose and mouth and place the yellow mask over your nose and mouth and put the elastic band over your head.'

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Flight Attendant suggested changing the safety announcement during the COVID-19 pandemic to include instructions for passengers to remove their personal protective masks before donning drop-down oxygen masks.

Narrative: At the present time we are faced with COVID-19. Here in the US and other parts of the world people are told to wear mask or PPE to protect themselves. While our passengers on [airline name] are wearing masks; bandanas and other items to cover their nose and mouths no where in our safety demonstrations or announcements do we tell them how or what to do in a decompression during COVID-19. Shouldn't we change our announcement to say 'If needed; oxygen masks will drop from an overhead compartment. Remain seated with your seat belt fastened and pull the mask down to start the flow of oxygen. Remove your personal mask or protective equipment from around your nose and mouth and place the yellow mask over your nose and mouth and put the elastic band over your head.'

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1740086
Time
Date	202004
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	No Aircraft
Person 1
Function	Other / Unknown
Qualification	Flight Attendant Current
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Flight attendant suggested changing the safety announcement during the covid-19 pandemic to include instructions for passengers to remove their personal protective masks before donning drop-down oxygen masks.