Overview of NAVOSH Programs Flashcards
Year the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHACT) was established:
1970
Purpose of OSHACT of 1970:
- Directed the head of each federal department and agency to establish a Occupational Safety and Health program
- Provide safe and healthful places and conditions of employment
- Acquire, maintain and require the use of safety equipment necessary to protect employees.
- Keep records of all occupational accidents and illness
- consult with the secretary of labor in regard of the adequacy of records kept
- submit an annual report to the secretary of labor about all occupational accidents and injuries
Federal agencies implemented by OSHACT:
- OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- NIOSH (National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health)
Date OSHA was established
April 28th, 1971
OSHAs Purpose
Ensure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and providing training, outreach , edu and assistance.
NIOSH jobs:
- Engages in research to eliminate on-the-job hazards
- technical assist to OSHA
SECNAVINST 5100.10 series
Department of the navy policy for safety, mishap prevention, occupational health and FIRE PROTECTION PROGRAMS
OPNAVINST 5100.23 series
Navy occupational safety and health program manual
- covers 30 topics for SHORE facilities
Covers 30 topics/programs of shore facilities
OPNAVINST 5100.23
OPNAVINST 5100.19 series
Navy occupational safety and health program afloat
- consists of 4 sections
The 4 sections of OPNAVINST 5100.19:
A) SOH Program Admin
B) Major Hazard Specific Chapters
C) Surface Ship Safety Hazards
D) Submarines Safety Hazards
NAVMED P-5010 Ch 3
Prevention of heat and cold stress injuries
- ashore
- afloat
- ground forces
COMDINST M5100.47
Coast guard heat/cold stress monitoring program
Industrial Hygiene is:
The science that deals with the recognition, evaluation, and control of potential hazards in the work place
Occupational health is:
A multi disciplinary field of general preventative medicine which is concerned with prevention and/or treatment of an illness inducted by factors in the workplace
Major disciplines of Occ Health:
- Environmental Health
- Occupational Med
- Occupational health nurse
- Epidemiology
- toxicology
- Industrial Hygiene
- Health Physics
Assistant Secretary of the navy is responsible for:
- energy instillations and environmental
- Designated occupational safety and health official for the DON
CNO is responsible for:
- implementation and management of the NAVOSH program
- establishes policy and standards for ALL commanders
- Establishes planning, programming, staffing and budgeting for NAVOSH programs
Fleet commanders (TYCOM) are responsible for:
- ensuring subordinate commands conduct aggressive NAVOSH program
- program oversight must be completed on subordinate commands every 3 years
Immediate superiors in command (ISICs) responsibilities:
- assist afloat commands to ensure that afloat SOH discrepancies that are beyond the ships capabilities are ID’d and prioritized
- Ensure timely and through safety investigations are conducted
- ensure all IH and safety surveys are conducted (Baseline and Periodic)
- conduct NAVOSH inspections of subordinate commands (3 Years)
NAVSEASYSCOM stands for:
Commander Naval Sea Systems Command
Responsibilities of NAVSEASYSCOM:
- ensure occupational safety and health are considered in design and engineering of all naval facilities and systems.
- engineering control of all significant occ health problems (noise, Asbestos, HAZMAT)
BUMED Responsibilities:
- provide support to CNO and Commandant of MC in all aspects of occupational health, IH, and EH.
Commander navy safety center responsibilities:
- monitors safety and occupational health stats
- provide direct support to fleet units on safety matters
- conducts afloat operational safety assessments (AOSA)
Navy Medicine Professional Development Center (NMPDC) Responsibilities:
Ensures all elements of the approved navy training plan for NAVOSH afloat are properly executed
CO responsibilities:
- Conduct an aggressive program
- designate command safety officer w/ training
- establish a safety council and enlisted safety committee
- ensure compliance w/ mishap reporting
- ensure all annual inspections are done and IH surveys are done once during operational cycles
- establish a hazard control and deficiency abatement program
Safety Officer responsibilities:
- Manage NAVOSH program based off CO objectives
- report directly to the CO on Occ safety and health matters
- reports to the XO for admin of NAVOSH
Primary duty Safety Officer will be assigned to what types of ships?
CVN - Carrier
LHA - Landing Helo Assault
LHD - Landing Helo Deck
AS - Sub Tender
who can be a collateral duty safety officer?
- Commissioned officer of department head status and seniority
- CPO may be appointed on small ships with TYCOM waiver
Specific responsibilities of the Safety Officer:
- advisor to the CO
- oversee ship-wide planning to implement elements of NAVOSH program
- prepare and submit requests for outside OSH program
- Participate in mishap investigations
what records must the safety officer analyze and maintain?
- inspections
- surveys
- injury reports
- mishap statistics
Medical Department Representative Responsibilities:
- direct access to the CO regarding medical side of NAVOSH
- keep safety officer and department heads informed
- treat injuries and illnesses
- provide training on Occ health programs
- coordinate with Safety O for help with; IH, Rad Health, OCC Med
- provide injury reports to CO via the COC
- establish and maintain a QA program for OCC Med
DH/DivO/Work Center Sups Responsibilities:
- ensure safe and healthful wor kspace
- ensure space in inspected and hazard free
- ensure personnel are trained and have PPE
- take prompt action to correct deficiencies
Division PO responsibilities:
- inspect division spaces
- submit safety hazard reports
- advise division officer on NAVOSH program status
- conduct division safety training
- assist during mishap/injury investigations
Members of the safety council:
- CO (chairperson)
- Safety O (recorder)
- Training O
- Department Heads
- MDR
- CMC
how often does the safety council meet?
Quarterly
what is reviewed in a safety council meeting?
- inspections
- reports
- injuries and other related reports (medical)
other safety council meeting matters:
- Direct corrective action for unsafe conditions
- evaluates ship NAVOSH program
- Reviews issues/recommendations submitted by the enlisted safety committee
Enlisted safety committee members:
- Safety Officer (senior member)
- Divisional Safety PO
- chief Master-at-Arms
how often does the enlisted safety committee meet?
quarterly
Enlisted safety committee discussion topics:
- identify NAVOSH problems
- enhance communication of mishap prevention
- submit issues/recommendations in writing to safety council
Individual Crew Members (All Hands) Responsibilities:
- accomplish assigned tasks and follow applicable directives
- know and comply with safety standards / PPE
- report suspected unsafe work conditions
- report all; injuries, occupational illness, property damage from mishap.
what is the principal way to discover health and safety hazards
inspections
Types of workplace inspections
- safety
- industrial hygiene
- jobsite observation
- afloat operational safety assessment (AOSA)
- board of inspection and survey (INSURV) and command occ safety and health management evaluations
- civilian inspections
Safety inspections include:
- ensure all workplaces are inspected annually
- safety officer retains reports for 2 years
IH survey
- all ships must have a baseline survey conducted
- required; baseline, once each yard period, new construction
Baseline IH survey contains:
- Executive summary of findings
- admin evaluation of occ health and IH programs
- list of eye hazardous processes
- list areas requiring resp protection
- sound level survey with list of hazardous areas
- air sampling results
- hazard evaluations
- ventilation eval
- medical surveillance
- recommendations
job site observation contains:
- detects and corrects hazards resulting from worker non compliance
- Random walk through
- perform during work day or evolutions
who may conduct a job site walkthrough inspection?
- CO
- XO
- Department Head
- Div O
- Work Center Sup
Afloat operation assessment survey (AOSA) contains:
- conducted by commander, naval safety center
- 1-2 day duration
- provides CO with evaluation of ship
- promotes hazard awareness
- report stays at the ship level and does not require a follow up
- conducted every 6 years or at command request
INSURV Contains:
- evaluates ship compliance with NAVOSH
- SOH and environmental protection inspections are conducted during final contract trials
- copies must be routed to Safety O to ensure all ID’d hazards are tracked and corrected
Civilian inspections:
OSHA may conduct inspections but must meet all classification and military unique requirements
-State officials may NOT inspect navy vessels.
medical surveillance purpose:
- monitor health of individuals exposed to hazards in the fleet by exams
- determine individuals fitness to begin or continue to perform a job safely and effectively
- monitors the health of those exposed to hazards
- detects early indicators of excessive exposure
- helps prevent actual disease/injury
- allows timely corrective actions
Safety Hazard report requirements:
- tracked until verified as corrected / eliminatied
- some may be corrected by ships force while others require availabilities of maintenance periods
- tracked and forwarded to safety officer
- all crew is encouraged to report potential hazards
when are safety hazard reports submitted?
when safety deficiencies are not corrected on the spot
what is filled out when a supervisor fails to correct a safety hazard?
OPNAV 3120/5
- typed or hand written
- forwarded to Safety O
Hazard Abatement description
- process where ID’d hazards are tracked until corrected
Risk Assessment Code (RAC)
- provides a priority for corrections
- derived by using hazard severity and mishap probability
Hazard Severity Categories:
I - catastrophic: may cause death or loss of facility / grave damage to national interest
II - critical: may cause severe injury/illness/property damage/damage to national interest
III - marginal: may cause minor injury/illness/property damage
IV - negligible: presents minimal threat to personnel or property
Mishap probability categories
A - Likely to occur immediately or very soon
B - probably will occur in time
C - May occur in time
D - unlikely to occur
All the Different OCC safety and health programs:
- Asbestos control
- Heat stress
- HAZMAT
- Hearing conservation
- Sight Conservation
- Resp Protection
- Electrical safety
- Gas free engineering
- Radiation protection
- Lead
- Tag-out program
- PPE
procedures used to prevent, control and report workplace hazards:
- prevent hazard at the design phase
- ID and eliminate existing hazard
- reduce likelihood and severity when they cant be eliminated
Principals of hazard control (in order of preference)
- Substitution
- Engineering Controls
- Admin Controls
- PPE
Substitution
- replacement of a process, material or equipment having a lower hazard potential
- ensure new substitute does not create a new hazard
Engineering Controls:
- primarily accomplished through design and advance planning
- should be approved through safety and IH before implementing
Types of engineering controls:
- isolation
- ventilation
Administrative controls:
- employs special operating procedures
- limiting access to high hazard areas
PPE
- personnel wear special equipment to prevent/ reduce exposure to a hazard
- least preferred because PPE can fail
- PPE reduces the workers productivity
