Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com d. Organize and staff a comprehensive safety office under the direction of a designated command safety and occupational health manager. This office will organize and administer a safety program that includes the following: (1) Accident reporting (2) Workplace safety (3) Transportation safety (4) Family and off-the-job safety (5) Range safety (when applicable) (6) Explosive safety (when applicable) (7) Aviation safety (when applicable) (8) Tactical safety (when applicable) (9) Radiation safety (when applicable) (10) System safety (when applicable) (11) Hazardous materials operations. (12) Research, development, test, and evaluation (RDTE) activities.
(See AR 385–16.) (13) System safety management and engineering. (See AR 385–16.) (14) Operations involving the use of ionizing and nonionizing radiation. (See AR 385–9 and AR 385–11.) (15) Public safety. (16) Family, dependent, and off-the-job accident prevention. (17) Other loss control elements. e. Provide sufficient funds and other resources to carry out all responsibilities designated in this regulation to assure safety and OH program effectiveness. This staff will perform standard accident prevention functions and tasks as outlined in chapter 5.
Safety, occupational health, fire prevention, environmental protection, and injury compensation staffs will work in close coordination on matters of mutual concern. f. Appoint additional duty safety personnel to perform required safety and accident prevention functions in troop/ industrial/administrative units not staffed with full-time safety personnel. In troop units, this includes company level or equivalent organizational component. These unit safety personnel will— (1) Be appointed in writing on orders. (2) Be a commissioned officer at battalion and higher unit levels. (3) Be in the rank of staff sergeant or higher at company level.
(4) Have completed, or will complete, a local unit safety officer course. (5) Have 1 year or more retainability in the unit upon duty appointment. (6) Give their safety officer duties proper priority. (7) Report directly to the commander on safety-related matters. g. Civilian collateral safety personnel will be given similar training. h. Support efforts to develop military and civilian safety expertise through training programs, effective career development, and management procedures. i. Provide safety, occupational health, and related loss control services to tenant and satellite commanders in support of their statutory and regulatory responsibilities.
Installation commanders have responsibilities for safety of people, the environment, and public on their installation. Local memorandum of understanding will be developed between host and tenant organizations to ensure necessary safety and OH responsibilities are addressed. j. Provide safety services to USAR units in their geographic area of responsibility as defined in AR 5–9. k. Establish at MACOM, installation, and community level a Safety and Occupational Health Advisory Council composed of management and military and civilian operating personnel.
This council will make recommendations to the commander and perform such additional safety and occupational health tasks as the commander or the council may direct. (1) Such councils will be chaired by the commander or the commander’s designee, who will be a senior manage- ment official. (2) Councils will meet periodically and will publish the minutes of the meetings. (3) MACOM commanders may exempt installations having small populations from the requirements of this para- graph; however, these exemptions will document quality control measures. Such populations may be represented through participation in other command councils.
(4) Establishment of councils at other than installation level will be at MACOM discretion. l. Authorize use of official time for employees when participating in occupational safety and health (OSH) activities, including walkaround inspections, authorized by this regulation. 2–2. Operational procedures Leaders and managers are responsible for integrating risk management into all Army processes and operations. Safety 5 AR 385–10 • 29 February 2000