Safety Fundamentals

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Risk Management

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- Force protection doesn’t have a single solution. Risk mitigation is central to the idea of readiness & must not be an afterthought. RM is the best way to eliminate senseless and needless loss of life, injury, & material damage.

- Requires active participation from personnel @ all levels in Identifying, Assessing, & Controlling risk.

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Inherent Risk

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- In every phase of tasking, missions, & operations.

- Present both on and off duty, understand how to assess & manage risk to achieve mission success & preserve combat readiness.

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RM enhances readiness by...

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- Enhancing task or mission accomplishment by > probability of success.

- Minimize risk

- Enhance decision-making skills based on systematic, reasoned, & repeatable process.

- Providing a systematic structure to perform risk assessments.

- Improved confidence to make informed risk decisions.

- Preserve personnel & material by avoiding unnecessary risk.

- Provide an adaptive process for continuous feedback.

- ID feasible & effective control measures

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RM does not...

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- Inhibit flexibility, initiative, or accountability.

- Remove risk altogether or support a “zero defect” mindset.

- Remove necessity for practice, drills, rehearsals, & tactics, techniques, & procedures.

- Sanction/justify violating orders or the law.

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Four principles of RM

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- Accept Risk When Benefits Outweigh the Cost

- Accept No Unnecessary Risk

- Anticipate & Manage Risk by Planning

- Make Risk Decisions @ the Right Level

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Accept Risk When Benefits Outweigh the Cost

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The goal of RM is to manage risk for minimum amount of loss. Balancing cost & benefit is subjective, therefore, personnel with knowledge & experience of mission/task must be engaged.

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Accept No Unnecessary Risk

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Not contribute meaningfully to task/mission. Will needlessly jeopardize personnel/material. If not all detectable hazards have not been ID, then unnecessary risks are being accepted.

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Anticipate & Manage Risk by Planning

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Integrate RM into planning @ all levels providing greatest opportunity to make well-informed decisions & implement effective controls.

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Make Risk Decisions @ the Right Level

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RM decisions are made by the leader directly responsible fore the operation. Anyone can make risk decisions, appropriate decision level resides whereby leader can make decisions to accept, eliminate, or reduce risk.

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Three levels of RM

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- In-depth level

- Deliberate level

- Time Critical

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In-depth level

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Available time for planning is not a limiting factor & involves a very thorough risk assessment.

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Deliberate level

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Ample time to apply the RM process to the mission planning evolution.

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Time Critical

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Level personnel operate on a daily basis both on and off duty. Normal RM level used during execution phase of training/operations as well as crisis response scenarios. Little to no time to make a plan. “On the spot” mental or verbal review of the situation.

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5 step process of RM

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- Identify hazards

- Assess Hazards

- Make Risk Decisions

- Implement Controls

- Supervise

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Identify Hazards

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Any condition w/ potential to negatively impact the task/mission. Can also cause property damage, injury, to personnel, & death.

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Assess Hazards

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Determine associates degree of risk in terms of probability & severity.

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Make Risk Decisions

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Accomplished in 2 sub steps to make informed decisions.

- ID & assess risk control options

- Ultimately marking risk decisions

- Reject the risk

- Avoid the risk

- Delay am Action

- Transfer the risk

- Compensate for the risk

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Implement Controls

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Ensure controls are converted into clear, simple execution orders understood @ all levels.

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Supervise

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Conduct follow-up evaluations of controls to ensure they remain in place & have desired effects.

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PPE

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- Head Protection

- Hearing Protection

- Foot Protection

- Eye Protection

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Head Protection

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Protects against impact, penetration & electric shock.

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Hearing Protection

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Shall be worn when noise levels are >84 dBA (8hr TWA) sound level, 140 dB peak sound pressure.

Double hearing protection worn >104 dBA (8hr TWA).

Exposed to gunfire, artillery, mortar, or missile fire shall wear hearing protection.

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Foot Protection

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Personnel occupationally exposed to foot-hazardous operations shall have appropriate footwear @ organizational expense.

Construction material handling, maintenance, transportation, weapons, supply, warehouse, vehicle maintenance facilities, aircraft maintenance, fuels & avionics.

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Eye Protection

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Eye hazardous areas/operations ID in PPE survey shall provide adequate eye protection @ government expense.

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Hazardous Material

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Any material, that because of it quantity, concentration, or physical or chemical characteristics, may pose hazardous to human health or environment during use, handling, storage, transportation, or spills.

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Hazardous Waste

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Any discarded material w, definition of HM or is designated as HW by the EPA or a state authority.

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Purpose and information contained in Material Safety Data Sheet

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- Document containing health effects on potential health effects of exposure & procedures when handling chemical products.

- Contains hazard evaluations on use, storage, handling, & emergency procedures.

- Contains hazards of the product, how to use product safely, what to expect if recommendations are not followed, what to do if accidents occurred, recognize symptoms of overexposure, & what to do if incidents occur.