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Division safety petty officers also receive training
on the enlisted safety committee, using and caring for
personal protective equipment, and advising the
division officer on safety matters. This course helps the
student develop and maintain an effective division
safety program.
AFLOAT SAFETY PROGRAM
EVALUATION
The principle way commands discover hazards is
through workplace inspections. The commands
supervisors direct the workplace inspections. They
arrange for appropriate safety and health personnel to
evaluate ships spaces and equipment. They also
routinely observe operations at the jobsite. Onsite
observations enable supervisors to detect and correct
hazards resulting from noncompliance with the safety
standards contained in OPNAVINST 5100.19B,
volumes II and III.
Commands use industrial hygiene surveys as
another method of identifying and evaluating workplace
hazards. Professional industrial hygienists conduct
these surveys to evaluate each workplace for
occupational hazards and physical stressors. This survey
identifies medical surveillance requirements. The
examinations detect adverse health effects resulting
from health hazardous exposure associated with duties.
ANNUAL WORKPLACE SAFETY
INSPECTIONS
Every workspace on board ship should be inspected
for safety hazards at least once a year. The safety officer
will ensure this inspection is conducted. An experienced
officer, accompanied by a division safety petty officer
(or aboard submarines, a submarine-qualified senior
petty officer from the division), is assigned to
accomplish the safety inspection of a workplace.
Appendix A3-A of OPNAVINST 5100.19B
provides inspection guidance in the form of checklists.
Safety inspections of all workspaces/equipment need
not be conducted at one time. During regularly
scheduled zone inspections, you can designate certain
spaces to receive safety zone inspections. These zone
inspections will make up the safety inspection. The
completed Workplace Inspection Form with an
accompanying deficiency list, such as a Zone Inspection
Deficiency List (ZIDL), is returned to the safety officer
upon completion of the inspection. That allows the
hazards to be documented and followed for corrective
action.
INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE SURVEYS
This survey quantifies hazardous exposures
associated with health-hazardous operations based on
actual measurements. We discussed industrial hygiene
services in chapter 5. The industrial hygiene survey
provides the following information:
Summary of NAVOSH Program compliance
List of asbestos hazards
List of eye hazardous areas
Respiratory protection requirements
Lead hazard areas or processes
Medical surveillance requirements
Other data from measurements and air sampling
Industrial hygiene surveys are conducted between
the completion of each yard period and before
deployment. These surveys will normally be
accomplished by a Navy Environmental and Preventive
Medicine Unit (NEPMU) or a tender or aircraft carrier
industrial hygiene officer. The safety officer should
keep a copy of the survey report and follow up on
corrective actions.
JOBSITE OBSERVATION
It is amazing how many people can walk right by a
hazard and not notice it! Every supervisor, of every
rank, has an obligation to be on the lookout for hazards.
Most hazards are identified through jobsite observation.
The commanding officer, executive officer, safety
officer, department heads, division officers, and work
center supervisors should routinely walk through
workspaces during the workday or during evolutions to
observe jobaite performance. They should make these
observations to detect and correct hazards resulting
from worker noncompliance with safety standards.
Supervisors should correct those hazards that can be
correctedon the spotand document all others. They
may need to take temporary measures to prevent a
mishap until a permanent correction is made.
MASTER-AT-ARMS FORCE INSPECTIONS
Members of the master-at-arms (MAA) force act as
roving safety inspectors during their normal tours of the
command. They must be alert to any deficiencies or
hazards that could result in injury to personnel or
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