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Safety Program indoctrination and annual refresher
training that includes the following topics:
An introduction to the Afloat Safety program, the
identity of key safety personnel, and the identity
of safety chain of command personnel
Detailed information on mishap prevention,
investigation, and reporting with emphasis on
privileged information
Safety precautions and safety standards
Hazard identification and reporting procedures
You may wish to use the NAVOSH Training Guide
for Forces Afloat, NAVEDTRA 10074, in conducting
the shipboard training required by OPNAVINST
5100.19B. The training guide combines occupational
health and safety subject matter into 20 generic lesson
guides, complete with quizzes and handouts. It also
provides lists of available training aids, video tapes, and
formal course information. It supplies a sample
long-range training plan, references, and a technical
assistance guide.
Instructors for the afloat training guides should be
E-5 or above, preferably safety petty officers or medical
department representatives. The instructor does not
have to be a subject matter expert. Make afloat safety
and occupational health training apart of your command
training plan. Include it as GMT in the long-range
training plan for your ship.
FORMAL TRAINING FOR SHIPBOARD
SAFETY AND HEALTH PROGRAMS
In addition to shipboard training, several shore
courses are offered for shipboard personnel. Fleet
training centers, the Naval Safety Center, the Naval
Safety School, and Navy Environmental and Preventive
Medicine Units (NEPMUs) conduct the training. The
NAVOSH training incorporated into these courses
reinforces basic and specialty training. This training
provides direct support toward the management of
hazard-specific programs associated with the NAVOSH
Program. Formal NAVOSH training provides personnel
with information on how to detect hazards, perform
surveillance, report deficiencies, report mishaps,
conduct training, and achieve program elements. The
NAVOSH Training Guide for Forces Afloat,
NAVEDTRA 10074, lists these courses.
Formal safety training was upgraded in 1991 in
response to a tasking from the Chief of Naval Operations
for an improved Afloat Safety Program. The Naval
Safety Center developed two new safety officer courses
and helped to revise the safety supervisor course. The
following formal training is provided for the surface
ship and submarine safety organization:
AFLOAT SAFETY OFFICER COURSE
(A-4J-0020)—This 10-day course trains commissioned
officers, warrant officers, and Military Sealift
Command first officers who have been or will be
assigned as a command’s safety officer. The course
concentrates on preparing primary and collateral duty
safety officers to manage the program aboard their
commands. The Surface Warfare Officer School staff in
Newport, Rhode Island, presents the course, which they
export to major fleet home ports.
The course uses OPNAVINST 5100.19B to provide
instruction on hazard identification (inspections and
industrial hygiene surveys), medical surveillance, and
hazard abatement. It also covers program evaluation,
training, safety standards and regulations, and the Safety
Council and Enlisted Safety Committee. It also
addresses the major hazard-specific and support pro-
grams and the detailed instruction on mishap
investigation and reporting. This course is required for
staff and shipboard primary and collateral duty safety
officers.
SUBMARINE SAFETY OFFICER COURSE
(F-4J-0020)—This 4-day course is a condensed version
of the 10-day Afloat Safety Officer course. It is tailored
exclusively for submarine, collateral-duty safety
officers. The submarine training facilities at Norfolk,
Virginia, and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, present the course.
This course provides the same topics as the afloat course
but drops the surface-ship-unique topics. All collateral
duty submarine safety officers should complete either
this course or the Afloat Safety Officer course.
SAFETY PROGRAMS AFLOAT COURSE
(J-493-2099)—This 5-day course, presented at fleet
training centers, provides specialized NAVOSH
training to senior enlisted personnel. Anyone who takes
the course must be an E-5 or above who has been, or
will be, assigned to duty as a division safety petty officer
or safety supervisor. One-half of the division safety
petty officers from each ship will attend this course
before, or within 6 months of, their assignment. Training
covers information on workplace monitoring, hazard
identification, hazard abatement, and deficiency
correction. In addition, personnel receive training on
rating the division safety program, safety standards and
regulations, mishap or near-mishap investigations, and
division safety training.
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