Chapter 8 Safety and Damage Control

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CHAPTER 8 SAFETY AND DAMAGE CONTROL 1. 2. Describe Upon completion of the procedure for LEARNING OBJECTIVES this chapter, you should be able to conducting a 3. Describe how do the following: to conduct survival training. preliminary investigation involving personal injury or death. 4. Identify the duties of the departmental damage control chief petty officer (DDCCPO). Describe the supervisor’s responsibilities for the Navy’s safety program. This chapter covers areas of safety and damage control not included in the Basic Military Requirements through Military Requirements for First Class training manuals. It includes the procedure for conducting an investigation in the case of personal injury or death and a review of supervisory responsibilities in the safety program. It also covers the damage control requirements of the departmental damage control chief petty officer (DDCCPO). Since safety is related to survival, this chapter also introduces you to the survival training you are expected to conduct as a chief petty officer. PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF INJURY OR FATALITY One of the many potential jobs you may be required to undertake is to conduct a safety investigation of a mishap, personal injury, or fatality. The requirements for safety investigations are set forth in OPNAVINST 5102.1C. The proce- dures you, the investigator, should follow are contained in the Handbook for the Conduct of Forces Afloat Safety Investigations, N A V- SAFECEN 5102/29. This section of the chapter will provide a brief description of the investigative procedures for a mishap. RESPONSIBILITIES The commanding officer will appoint a qualified investigator of the appropriate paygrade. In many cases, the appropriate paygrade means the division leading chief petty officer (LCPO). The LCPO is often appointed because of his or her special qualifications. For example, the LCPO may have a highly specialized knowledge of the equipment that failed or a personal knowledge of the people and procedures used. The commanding officer is also responsible for ensuring a thorough and complete investigation is conducted. Your responsibilities include answering the following questions: What? Where? When? How? and Why? Notice that you are not trying to find WHO caused the mishap. Your job is to make an objective inquiry to learn the circumstances and causes, not place the blame. Each mishap indicates a failure or defect in a person, a piece of equipment, an environmental condition, a procedure, or a combination of these items. You should thoroughly examine each situation to determine all causes, both primary and contributory. An important concept for you to understand is that mishaps and injuries are two separate and distinct occurrences. An injury is not the mishap; 8-1

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