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Maintenance Officer CDR. Vernon Hunter vernon.hunter@navy.mil Editorial Coordinators MGSgt. Arthur Hagans arthur.hagans@navy.mil ATCS(AW/SW) Thomas Crook thomas.crook@navy.mil
ALSS Program A VISION FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW... By GySgt Steve Dell
Preventing mishaps is a crucial part of everyday aviation operations. It takes keen situational awareness and superior leadership to identify the numerous and potential hazards that exist in every type of environment. While identification is a must, knowing what to do with the hazard is just as important. I’ve learned to live by this standard: “What do I know, who else needs to know, and out of those, who have I not told?” A good example is the Engineering Investigation (EI) tool located on the Joint Deficiency Reporting System (JDRS) website www.jdrs.mil. This system lets you request an investigation on components and hardware by engineers. The findings from investigations lead to different approaches. One approach is to notify the fleet of known
or potential hazards with components or hardware per Type/Model/Series aircraft. Primarily, this is carried out by the issuance of a Technical Directive (TD) in the form of a bulletin requiring a one-time or recurring
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inspection of like items throughout the fleet and the supply system. This highly effective means of communication could easily result in stopping a bad situation from happening. Another example of communicating hazards is by initiating a hazard report (HAZREP) on the WebEnabled Safety System (WESS). A link to this site can be found via the WESS tab located at the top of the Naval Safety Center’s website (www.public.navy.mil/ navsafecen. Where the EI tool gets the ball rolling on investigating a problem, a HAZREP immediately notifies other commands of the same Type/Model/Series. The HAZREP describes the event that took place and recommends actions.
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