Section II Safety Risk Management

SAFETY RISK MANAGEMENT

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

• We capitalize on our staff’s diversity of experience to develop experts in all areas of risk management and control across the Naval Enterprise

• We collect data from all available sources to create data-driven recommendations for risk reduction throughout the Naval Enterprise

• We work with stakeholders to develop effective risk mitigation strategies

One of NAVSAFECEN’s most significant achievements of 2020 was the on-time rollout and implementation of the new Risk Management Information (RMI) Streamlined Incident Reporting (SIR) system.

RMI SIR aligns with a formal system of hazard identification, risk assessment, risk acceptance, control implementation, and risk monitoring to control risk at acceptable levels. Risk management applies to all missions and environments across the Naval Enterprise, both on and off duty.

RMI is composed of four pillars:

Streamlined Incident Reporting (SIR) Analysis and Dissemination(A&D)

Provides enterprise reporting enhancements, which include streamlined reporting processes, improved unit-level reporting access and capabilities, and enterprise and unit-level tracking and verification of reportable medical injuries.

Safety Program Management (SPM) Single Point Of Entry (SPOE)

Provides users with the capabilities needed for planning, preparing, and executing a safety and occupational health program. Specific capabilities include confined space entry, deficiency abatement, fall protection, inspections, job hazard analysis, medical surveillance, respiratory protection, safety committee, self-assessment, and training. Provides an advanced analysis and analytics capability for SIR and safety program management data that will enable trend analysis and proactive decision-making related to mishap and injury avoidance in compliance with Department of Defense (DOD) safety and occupational health standards and policy.

Provides a single point of entry available to Sailors, Marines and safety professionals, reducing the inconsistencies introduced by dissimilar legacy systems and organizations.

Transitioning from the previous Web-Enabled Safety System (WESS) and bringing this innovative safety management system online was a focused and collaborative effort by the entire NAVSAFECEN workforce. Every directorate contributed to the successful launch of RMI, whether by migrating data, communicating to the Naval Enterprise, or by conducting pre-rollout training both virtually and through seminars.

The Knowledge Management and Safety Promotions (KMSP) Directorate began working toward two major efforts designed to improve tools and processes. KMSP’s data management directorate initiated a comprehensive data visualization effort designed to provide Naval Enterprise customers with the necessary tools for tracking, and exploring safety issues taking place in operational forces. An example of one of these new tools is the first dashboard produced, which provides data on carrier strike groups. In the area of process improvement, the division began developing management metrics for quality control regarding data inputs. Both programs are exploratory, and ongoing.

The data administration and programming directorates completed tasking enabling the continued operation of the WESS platform while fully supporting the RMI efforts.

The Safety Promotions Directorate created and distributed to the Naval Enterprise a full-color special edition magazine highlighting RMI, providing an in-depth user guide to supplement official RMI training and resources.

The Aviation Safety Programs Directorate was critical in product development and training for RMI. Directorate trainers provided formal and informal face-to-face, online, and telephonic training to Navy and Marine Corps personnel. Efforts included in-person instruction and curriculum updates for the School of Aviation Safety to ensure future aviation safety officers received the latest mishap and hazard reporting information.

The Operational Risk Management and Expeditionary Directorate provided subject matter expert (SME) support and months of technical assessments and input to ensure a smooth transition from WESS to RMI, including SMEs who trained Naval Enterprise personnel on the Dive/Jump Reporting System (DJRS) functionality. DJRS serves 31,895 users from 10 agencies across the U.S. government. There were 12,036 dive logs encompassing 144,987 dives.

In addition to developing associated training material for customer use, SMEs also provided assistance with DJRS upgrades to ensure continued communication between RMI and DJRS. NAVSAFECEN SMEs assisted with 935 RMI-SIR customer engagements via Kapsuun Group.

Shore Safety Directorate supported RMI by completing 164 feedbacks for the system, reviewing three plans, conducting 20 RMI/SIR instructor training sessions and initiating, testing, and validating 97 of the original 304 feedbacks for SIR and SPM integrated product teams (inspections, hazard abatement, confined space, and falls).

Afloat Safety Directorate delivered over 300 hours of online training to more than 2,000 Navy and Marine safety professionals through Adobe Connect during the transition to RMI/SIR. The development team’s efforts ensured the testing of 173 scenarios and the identification and correction of 72 high-priority system discrepancies. These efforts proved vital to the on-time release of a fully functioning and highly reliable safety recording and management system to the Naval Enterprise to serve as a replacement for WESS.