Safety

Industrial and Construction

Industrial and construction safety professionals must provide oversight of work activities and identify hazards in a wide variety of operations, such as working on elevated surfaces, handling and storage of hazardous materials and explosives, operating machinery, excavations, maritime activities, repairing or maintaining equipment and use of hoists/cranes, materiel handling and heavy equipment. They assess operations and develop procedures to minimize and control potential hazards. Industrial and construction safety professionals must know health, safety and fire protection regulations which apply to a broad field of operations.

These safety managers must prepare recommendations and advise project/facility managers of the best means for complying with standards and reducing hazards to ensure a safe work environment for employees. Since they interact with employees, supervisors, managers, as well as Federal (OSHA/EPA), State, and other authorities, safety personnel need to effectively communicate at all levels.

Within the Army, organizations that employ industrial and construction safety personnel include Army Materiel Command (AMC) and/or Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).

Hospital Safety

Hospital safety professionals must provide oversight to operations and activities where patient care is done. They assess these operations and the associated processes, and develop procedures to minimize and control risks to ensure effective patient care and other services are done within a safe environment. They analyze and resolve diverse critical safety hazards that involve multiple environments, buildings, equipment and people. The work is usually performed in a medical, dental or veterinary treatment facility in a variety of locations.

Hospital safety professionals must have expert knowledge in all regulatory standards of compliance to include but not limited to The Joint Commission (TJC); Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA); National Fire Protection Association (NFPA); American National Standards Institute (ANSI); American Hospital Association (AHA); College of American Pathologists (CAP); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA); and the Army Safety Program, etc. Provide oversight for new construction and renovation and coordinates with the Corps of Engineers; Health Facilities Planning Agency and contractors during planning, pre-construction, construction and acceptance phases on new and renovation projects of Medical/Dental and Veterinary Services facilities.

These safety managers must prepare recommendations and advise commanders and managers of the best means for complying with standards and reducing hazards to ensure a safe work environment for patients, visitors, Soldiers, civilian employees, and contractors. Since they interact with employees, supervisors, managers, as well as Federal (OSHA/EPA), State, and other authorities, safety personnel need to effectively communicate at all levels. Within the Army, the organization that employs hospital safety personnel is the U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM).

Tactical Safety

Tactical safety professionals are an essential component in maintaining the Army's overall readiness. They work across the spectrum of warfighting functions (movement and maneuver, fires, intelligence, sustainment, command and control and protection). Their training has equipped them to meet the needs of the Army in challenging assignments worldwide, including deployments in support of combat, humanitarian, contingency and peacekeeping operations-often in austere environments. These professionals are trained to anticipate and identify hazardous conditions and practices; assess risks; develop hazard control designs, methods, procedures and programs; implement, administer and advise others on hazard control initiatives; and measure, audit and evaluate the effectiveness of accident prevention programs.

Tactical safety professionals are "in-house" safety advocates who provide commanders from the brigade up with hands-on technical assistance to support the preservation of combat resources. In addition to the required competencies all safety and occupational health professionals must meet, tactical safety professionals are trained in the following fields:

• Composite Risk Management
• Tactical Safety
• Deployment/Redeployment Accident Prevention
• Joint Accident Investigation and Analysis
• Electrical/Fire Safety
• Range Safety
• Explosives Safety
• Deployment Environmental Safety and Occupational Health
• Resource Threat Assessments
• Live/Simulated Tactical Training Operations
• Ground Operations
• Railhead, Airlift and Sealift Operations
• Transport of Personnel and Cargo
• Wheeled and Tracked Vehicle Operations
• Combat Engineer/Construction Operations
• Field Maintenance Operations
• Field Maneuver Sites