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Greetings!
May 2009 Safety Newsletter
Pennsylvania Wing - Civil Air Patrol
Lt Col Barry Metz
Phone 610-429-9984
Director of Safety
Safety Web Page - As announced at last months Wing Commanders Call, the Wing
Safety Department has a new webpage where information can be found and forms
and instructions can be downloaded. The
old address was a little large - http://mysite.verizon.net/res114zy7/
so I obtained a URL that should be easier to remember. The new link is http://www.tinyurl.com/pawingsafety. This webpage will have all the forms,
documents, safety briefings and anything dealing with safety. Please give it a look and send me any
suggestions to improve it or items you would like to see there.
How to Conduct a Safety Briefing - The
topic for this month's safety briefing is "How to do a Safety Briefing". Seems
to be a simple enough procedure. The
mechanics are very simple. Select the
subject, (probably what you had on your yearly schedule) and present it. Well, maybe a little more work is
involved. Your selected subject should
relate to your unit activity or the safety of an activity. Do some research on the subject. The internet has a large volume of related
safety information. Or use the resources
already available to you in your unit.
For example, if your unit is based at an airport, a CFI or even one of the unit pilots could give a
"Safety around an Airport" briefing.
Other items that need to be completed is a written summary or additional
information that could be placed that could be placed on the Unit Safety
Bulletin Board for those members who missed the briefing. Also a sign-in sheet so you will be able to
post the attendance on the WMU Safety Page.
As soon as possible, enter the information from the sign in sheet and
information about the presentation in the WMU.
Once that is done, you have completed the unit's requirement.
Some other points concerning the
briefing are that the briefing needs to be at least 15 minutes long and you
need a face to face briefing with each member every 3 months. How you perform the safety briefing is up to
the unit safety officer. It could be a
lecture type, a power-point presentation, a video or a hands on exercise. The choice is up to the safety officer or the
presenter.
A safety briefing at an activity
should follow the ORM of identifying risks and how to mitigate the risks. Identify any unusual procedures that
non-local personnel may not be aware of and demonstrate or explain procedures
used at that location.
Safety Information Files -Every unit should have a Safety Information
File available for unit members to read.
Flying Magazine and AOPA Pilot Magazine have excellent articles
available each month for pilots and various insurance companies have a wealth
of information available on request.
Operation CAPSafe - Operation CAPSafe is now on-line. Go to e-services and click on CAP Safety Suggestions on the left-hand menu.
This should make entries easier for your Safety Suggestions as well as giving
the Safety Team tracking capabilities for Operation CAPSafe entries.
I would also
like to remind everyone that all prior CAP
National Safety Programs, including the
Safety Pledge, were terminated in December 2005.
Safety
Courses - The Basic and
Senior Safety Courses have now been on line for a couple of months and many of
our members (not just safety officers and commanders) have taken the
course. These courses are very
informative and do not take a long time to take. The course is well written and has been
tested for over a year in several wings with excellent results. After successful completion of the test you
will be able to print a certificate and your records will automatically be
updated to show the course.
ORM On-line
Course - Another new course
is the ORM on-line course. This course
covers the ORM theories and also includes a test and a certificate. At this time the course is an optional course
for members, but many wings are already requiring all members take the
course. At this time Unit commanders and
Unit Safety officers should take the course, but I'm recommending that all
members consider taking this course. It
is an on-line course and should take less than 30 minutes.
Other Items
Be SAFE! Thank you
Lt Col Barry Metz
Director of Safety
CAP PA Wing
email - bmetzcap@comcast.net
Maj. Jeffery Buchman
Assistant Director of Safety
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