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Greetings!
July 2009 Safety Newsletter Pennsylvania Wing - Civil Air Patrol
Lt Col Barry Metz Phone 610-429-9984
Director of Safety
· Keep a positive attitude.
· Accept that there are events that you cannot control.
· Be assertive instead of aggressive. Assert your feelings, opinions, or beliefs instead of becoming angry, defensive, or passive.
· Learn and practice relaxation techniques; try meditation, yoga, or tai-chi.
· Exercise regularly. Your body can fight stress better when it is fit.
· Eat healthy, well-balanced meals.
· Learn to manage your time more effectively.
· Set limits appropriately and say no to requests that would create excessive stress in your life.
· Get enough rest and sleep. Your body needs time to recover from stressful events.
· Don't rely on alcohol, drugs, or compulsive behaviors to reduce stress.
· Seek out social support.
Summer Safety - For those who asked for a repeat of last month's info on Summer Safety and Severe Weather Radios. It is that time of the year when the weather gets good and all the outside activities begin in Pa Wing. Of course with all this activity, accidents increase.
Please review
"101 Days of Summer Safety" at http://www.slideshare.net/AtlantaSafetyCouncil/101-days-of-summer-safety-brief
This Internet slide show is an excellent method of reminding your members about Summer Safety. Hazards include bug bites, more drivers on the road, drinking, inattentive driving, sunburn, dehydration, thunderstorms and many other hazards. There are many sources of information about summer activities, review them with your unit.
Severe Weather Radios - One recommendation from Safety this month is the purchase of a Weather Alert Radio. These radios are off until the NWS sends out an alert tone. This tone activates the radios siren or tone alerting system and allows you to hear the warning or watch information for your specific area.
What makes this radio better than other weather radios is that it is quiet until a specific tone for your area is generated. For a permanent or semi-permanent location, an AC model with battery backup is best. For mobile use, a handheld unit is good, but batteries may die and you need to update the NWS tone alert for your changing location.
Either way, it is an important piece of equipment that may help save your life. Remember for permanent locations, an AC model WITH battery backup is the best bet. Another point is to make sure the tones for your area can be programmed into your radio. This is one of those cases where you get what you pay for, so chose wisely. The model I have is REECOM Weather/Hazard Alert radio Model R-1630.
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.
Reminder: I would also like to remind everyone that all prior CAP National Safety Programs, including the Safety Pledge, were terminated in December 2005.
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.
More Safety People - Lt Col DeEtte Riley has joined the Safety Staff as Assistant Director of Safety - Ground.
Her responsibility, with you, is to promote Safety with our personnel
involved in Ground Activities such as Hawk Mt and all Encampments. She
joins Major Jeff Buchman who is Assistant Director of Safety - Aircraft.
And of course we are all Safety Officers, each and every one of us!
See the Pa Wing Safety page at www.tinyurl.com/pawingsafety
and on the Pa Wing Site under Safety.
Watch for SAFETY always!
Thank you
Lt Col Barry Metz
Director of Safety
CAP PA Wing
email - bmetzcap@comcast.net
Lt Col DeEtte Riley
Assistant Director of Safety - Ground
CAP PA Wing
email - driley@awandsons.com
Maj. Jeffery Buchman
Assistant Director of Safety - Aircraft
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From the National Commander:
25 June 2009
ORM Basic Required for ALL Cadets Participating in Cadet Activities
and
ORM Intermediate Required for Cadet Staff and SM at ALL Cadet Activities
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A Safer Pilot
A host of Web resources to make you a safer pilot Dedicated to making general aviation flying easier and safer, the AOPA Air Safety Foundation offers a number of safety education resources free of charge to all pilots. Here are some helpful Web links: Learn more in less time with interactive online courses; test your knowledge with instantly scored quizzes; search the accident database; check the schedule for safety seminars coming to your area; and print publications from the library. After you've had a chance to review these popular resources, show your support for the foundation by donating. For those unit safety officers looking for alternate means for pilots who miss their monthly safety meetings, try these from AOPA ASF. http://www.aopa.org/asf/ | |
Safety ALL WAYS ! 
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