Safety Involvement in Environmental Management
Abstract
Within the Army, increasing concern and resources are being devoted to environmental issues. Many of the issues are the direct result of accident events. To this point, relatively little attention has been devoted to this kind of accident. The vast majority of environmental-related accidents is not reported in the data base. Since there is little accounting for these accidents, there is little focused prevention work taking place. As a result, the Army continues to have spills and other accidental damage to the environment. These incidents simply add to the billions of dollars in accumulated damage. The Army needs to develop procedures that assure the safety function is making the maximum possible contribution to the control of these events. The potential return on improved safety in the environmental protection area could easily amount to tens of millions of dollars per year. The purpose of this study is to provide the Army an operational concept for a more effective integration of the safety function into the Army's environmental management and protection programs.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 30, 1991
- Accession Number
- ADA373210
Entities
People
- J. L. Zeller Jr.
- J. R. Callen