Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com aviation safety. Safety will be a prime consideration in all mission and training planning and operations, including wartime and contingency operations. Army aviation commanders will— (1) Ensure that safety is a principal element in all aviation operations and will apply CRM procedures in each phase of the training-management cycle to identify hazardous conditions and correct shortcomings responsible for these conditions; (2) Establish a written commander’s safety philosophy that contains current safety goals, objectives, and values, and includes the philosophy in quarterly training guidance (annually for RC).
(3) Employ CRM to ensure that maximum combat power is available for use at the decisive point and time for successful operations. During planning and execution of aviation missions, commanders will integrate mission, enemy, terrain and weather, troops, time available, and civil considerations when applying CRM procedures to identify and control hazards, in accordance with FM 5–19. (4) Ensure mission after action reports are conducted to assess the effectiveness of CRM and safe performance. (5) Ensure compliance with DOD, DA, OSHA, National Fire Protection Association, and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) safety standards and requirements.
When conflict exists between the various standards, the more stringent will be applied. (6) Develop and integrate safety goals, objectives, and values into appropriate training guidance based upon identificating the most probable and severe types of accidents expected and the most likely reasons (hazards) for these accidents. (7) Ensure that all aviation units have SOPs that include subjects listed in DA Pam 385–90. (8) Ensure that ASOs are not assigned duties that are not related to the safety component of protecting the force. b.
Each aircrew member is ultimately responsible for ensuring his or her own safety and for expeditiously advising the pilot in command that an unsafe practice is occurring or is about to occur. 15–3. Aviation Accident Prevention Surveys Commanders of all aviation units and aviation support facilities will conduct an Aviation Accident Prevention Survey (AAPS) annually, at a minimum. A survey of a functional area (or subarea) will be accomplished within 60 days of a new program manager being appointed.
When possible, the Aviation Accident Prevention Survey should be adminis- tered from the battalion/squadron level consolidating the safety staff into a survey team and using supplemental expertise from outside the unit. 15–4. Command safety council and enlisted safety council A Command Safety Council and an Enlisted Safety Council (ESC), when directed by the commander, will each be designated in writing at battalion level and above. Councils will, at a minimum, meet quarterly to review risk control options, make risk-control-option decisions, and direct implementation of risk control options.
The Command Safety Council and ESC may be combined as one council in units with a low density of officer or enlisted personnel, such as detachments and platoons. Commanders may consolidate councils (one Command Safety Council and one ESC) at no higher than battalion/squadron level. 15–5. Safety meetings Safety meetings will be conducted monthly for active Army and full-time RC units/facilities and quarterly for all others. 15–6. Operational hazard An operational hazard is any condition, action, or set of circumstances that compromises the safety of Army aircraft, associated personnel, airfields, or equipment. Operational hazards should be corrected at the lowest level possible.
Operational hazards include inadequacies, deficiencies, or unsafe practices (see DA Pam 385–90). DA Form 2696 (Operational Hazard Report) will be used to record information about a hazardous condition. 15–7. Aviation hazard location map A detailed hazard location map covering the entire local area will be maintained current and posted for ready access by all crews. Hazards will be analyzed and prioritized in terms of accident severity and probability. Maps will be updated quarterly or as hazards are identified. 15–8. Foreign Object Damage Prevention Program a.
A Foreign Object Damage Prevention Program will be established to find and correct potential hazards and to eliminate the causes of foreign object damage. The importance of reducing foreign object damage as a hazard to aircraft requires that all personnel (pilots, aircrew, maintenance, and ground support) constantly be aware of foreign object damage and take action to prevent this hazard to aircraft and personnel. b. A unit foreign object damage prevention officer/NCO, other than the ASO, will be appointed to implement the unit foreign object damage prevention program. 67 AR 385–10 • 23 August 2007