Safety Day: Cultivating a Culture of Risk Management

1. October 2008 CAP National Safety Down Day Lt Col Larry Brockshus MN Wing/ SE

2. Why a Safety Day? • Pause for introspection • Look at unit culture – how the unit trains, talks, acts and listens • Look at your self – your attitude toward risk • Focus on problem areas (trends) • Both from a National and a local perspective • Learn how to manage risks • Formally and informally • This is a pre-emptive strike on future mishaps • Commanders will choose the day in October

3. What is our Culture? • Do you have a trained, motivated Safety Officer? • Do you have quality safety meetings? • Is ORM a part of your unit’s culture? • Identify Hazards • Assess Risks: probability/severity • Mitigate Risks: analyze/decide/implement • Safety is a Command Issue and Everyone's Job! • Can you do better?

4. How are we doing?

5. National Safety UpdateSeptember 2008 Col Lyle Letteer National Safety Officer LLetteer@cap.gov 678-859-6298

6. Aircraft Acc & Inc FY07 – FY08 70 66 60 52 50 40 FY07 FY08 30 20 10 0

7. Vehicle Acc & Inc FY07 – FY08

8. Bodily Acc & Inc FY07 – FY08

9. FY05 – 08 Losses Flight 05 $293,000 06 $214,000 07 $239,832 08 $660,400 Ground $47,162 $54,915 $84,847 $105,819

10. FY 2008 Aircraft Mishaps • Aircraft Takeoff through Landing 29 Taxi 18 Hangar 18 Tie Down 1 Unknown 5 Weather 4 Precautionary Landings 14 Maintenance 9

11. FY 2008 Bodily Injuries • Member Mishaps Encampments 96 Previous Med Problems 20 PT 58 SAR/EX’s 34 National Events 10

12. HQ IS VERY CONCERNED ABOUT CAP SAFETY: National Commander, Brig Gen Amy Courter, CAP-USAF/CC, Col Russ Hodgkins and Col Lyle Letteer, the CAP National Safety Officer are all looking for safety to be in the forefront of everyone’s mind, whether volunteering for CAP or in their everyday lives. Operation CAPSafe

13. Allergic reaction Struck rudder while parking aircraft Struck tail ring while landing Reaction to fumes in the cockpit Hit / broke aircraft tail ring Scald foot while cooking Scratched by safety wire Dent in horizontal stabilizer Bitten by dog Sprained ankle Burn from a pan Cut crawling under fence Fainted Broke wing-tip strobe light while taxing How is MN Wing doing? 14 Reportable Mishaps

14. Allergic reaction Struck rudder while parking aircraft Struck tail ring while landing Fumes in the cockpit Hit / broke aircraft tail ring Scald foot while cooking Scratched by safety wire Dent in horizontal stabilizer Bitten by dog Sprained ankle Burn from a pan Cut crawling under fence Fainted Broke wing-tip strobe light while taxing Six Mishaps are Aircraft RelatedOver $4,000 Damage

15. Two are takeoff/landing related: Struck tail ring while landing Hit and broke aircraft tail ring Three are ground related: Dent in horizontal stabilizer Broke wing-tip strobe light while taxing Struck rudder while parking aircraft Aircraft Mishaps

16. Allergic reaction Struck rudder while parking aircraft Struck tail ring while landing Fumes in the cockpit Hit aircraft tail ring Scald foot while cooking Scratched by safety wire Dent in horizontal stabilizer Bitten by dog Sprained ankle Burn from a pan Cut crawling under fence Fainted Broke wing-tip strobe light while taxing Two Mishap Pilots not Identified

17. Allergic reaction Struck rudder while parking aircraft Struck tail ring while landing Reaction to fumes in the cockpit Hit aircraft tail ring Scald foot while cooking Scratched by safety wire Dent in horizontal stabilizer Bitten by dog Sprained ankle Burn from a pan Cut crawling under fence Fainted Broke wing-tip strobe light while taxing Eight Body Injuries

18. Allergic reaction Struck rudder while parking aircraft Struck tail ring while landing Fumes in the cockpit Hit aircraft tail ring Scald foot while cooking Scratched by safety wire Dent in horizontal stabilizer Bitten by dog Sprained ankle Burn from a pan Cut crawling under fence Fainted Broke wing-tip strobe light while taxing Two Cooking Mishaps

19. Allergic reaction Struck rudder while parking aircraft Struck tail ring while landing Fumes in the cockpit Hit aircraft tail ring Scald foot while cooking Scratched by safety wire Dent in horizontal stabilizer Bitten by dog Sprained ankle Burn from a pan Cut crawling under fence Fainted Broke wing-tip strobe light while taxing 14 MishapsHow many were preventable?

20. Ideas to Improve Safety • Live the CAP Core Values • Integrity • Volunteer Service • Excellence • Respect

21. Core Values do matter • Sept 12, 2008, a Los Angeles commuter train collides head-on with a freight train • 25 dead • 135 injured

22. Core Values do matter • Integrity, Excellence by the Engineer???? • Los Angeles Metrolink had a policy forbidding train engineers from “texting” while operating trains • The engineer sent and received dozens of text messages while on duty that day • He sent a message 22 seconds before the crash and received one about the time he ran through the red warning light • How often are we guilty cutting corners or compromising our core values?

23. Ideas to Improve Safety • Use ORM • (Avoid Stupid)

24. Be Safe during this next year