Force Safety & Occupational Health (FSOH)

Abstract

This effort supports the Department's initiative Taking Care of Our People. The requirements are aligned to DoD/Federal strategic direction, such as the DoD Digital Modernization Strategy, DoD and Federal Data Strategies, and Personnel and Readiness Strategy for 2030. In order to protect the lives, safety, health, and welfare of the DoD workforce, and the significant investments we make in our weapons systems, platforms and infrastructure, we must acknowledge Safety and Occupational Health (SOH). Ensuring the safety of our workforce requires an enduring safety culture, where regular and consistent hazard, near-miss and mishap reporting is the norm – at least on-par with industry and the private sector aviation and industrial communities. According to the 2020 National Commission on Military Aviation Safety (NCMAS) report, this begins with a centralized system and processes with which to gather, synthesize, and report Safety data at all levels. In addition to the NCMAS report, the Readiness Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC-R), in their report for the FY 2022 NDAA, directed the Department to establish uniform data collection standards and a centralized collection system for mishap information. Currently, the DoD collects SOH information from disparate, incomplete, and often overlapping sources - a process that hinders opportunities for timely or in-depth analysis and Department-wide mishap prevention efforts. Many of the DoD Components, including some of the Combatant Commands, do not have a safety information management system to enter, track, or manage mishaps, near-misses, or hazards. Without such a system and process, the Department is unable to adequately identify and analyze trends across the DoD Components, share lessons learned, and track corrective actions in response to recommendations. This effort addresses the Congressional requirements and identified capability gaps through development of a safety information case management system. The system will be based on the safety data standards, which have been defined and coordinated for Department-wide implementation and which will be incorporated into Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI) 6055.07 “Mishap Notification, Investigation, Reporting, and Record Keeping.” A central SOH information management system based on the newly approved safety data standards will provide the capability to those DoD Components without an existing automated tool, and will be available for all DoD Components. It will provide leaders current, accurate, and actionable safety information and insights to forecast, mitigate, and prevent future mishaps, injuries, and occupational illnesses, and to drive safety innovation and modernization.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2024
• Source ID: 057_0606301D8Z_6_0400_PB_2024

Tags

Readers

• Aviation Safety Risk Assessment.
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Government and Public Administration Law.