Mishap Reporting

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Mishap Reporting Recordkeeping

• John Seibert, CIH, CSP
• Assistant for Safety, Health Fire
• Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
• (Installations Environment)
• September 20, 2005

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Dissecting a Mishap
Investigate
Evaluate
?
DoDI 6055.7
DoDD 4715.1E
Compliance
Asset Management
Consequence Management
Improvement
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Purposes of Reporting

• Risk Management (ORM)
• Identifying current risk level to risk decision
  makers
• Providing information to make changes
• Consequence management
• Medical treatment
• Compensation to injured persons
• Legally assigning blame

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Reporting in Risk Management
1. Identify Hazards
Reporting
2. Assess Hazards to Determine Risk
5. Supervise Evaluate
3. Develop Controls Make Risk Decisions
4. Implement Controls
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Changes to Reporting

• Civilian employee injuries
• Private motor vehicle crashes
• Aviation mishaps
• Military deployment mishaps
• Fratricide Friendly Fire

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Civilian Employee Injuries
Gap Confusion from inconsistent reporting
between federal agencies and private industry

• Previous State
• OSHA 2014 Reporting Guidelines

• Current State
• Effective 1 Jan 2005
• 29 CFR 1904
• OSHA 300 Log

• Secondary effect
• shifts primary responsibility - OWCP to
  supervisors
• Supports VPP application process
• Resources
• http//www.osha.gov/dep/fap/recordkeeping_faqs.htm
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Private Motor Vehicle Crashes
Gap Detailed reporting of causes

• Current State
• Mishap data elements established within each
  Military Service

• Future state
• Minimum standard DoD data elements based on
  modified NHTSA MMUCC
• Services add data elements to minimums

• Resources
• Future changes to DoDI 6055.4
• http//www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/departments/nrd-30/nc
  sa/MMUCC.html

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Military Deployments
Gap Investigation reports for mishap during
deployments not shared with combatant commanders

• Current State
• Military Service-centric reporting
  investigations

• Future state
• Services continue leading investigations
• COCOMs included in investigation reporting

• Resources
• Future changes to DoDI 6055.7

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FratricideFriendly Fire (isnt)
Gap Fratricide investigations do not provide
timely recommendations to combatant commanders

• Current State
• Services perform legal investigations (up to 1
  year to report)

• Future state
• Services performing safety investigations
• COCOMs included in investigation reporting

• Resources
• Future changes to DoDI 6055.7

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Dissecting a Mishap
Investigate
Evaluate
?
DoDI 6055.7
DoDD 4715.1E
Compliance
Asset Management
Consequence Management
Improvement
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Questions?