I would like to turn this session over to
Jeff Brewer.
>> My name is Jeff Brewer, EM CX I'm
with the U.S. Carme -- Army Corps of Engineers. I would like to welcome
everyone to our third webinar.
Of this year. This webinar is action and reporting. We
have three speakers today. I would like to remind everyone
coming up in February it should be our next webinar. The
that is going to be --
we have a toolkit that is coming out.
With all that being said I would like to introduce Kellie
Williams, USACE HNC. Her presentation will be on action
and reporting.
>> Good afternoon. As Jeff said my name is Kellie Williams, USACE
HNC. I'm the chief of safety at the Huntsville center.
Just to give you a background I am working in the safety
and occupational health arena for over 30 years. 27 have been with
the Corps of Engineers hear the Huntsville center. During this time
I supported the OE programs, conventional and chemical warfare.
I've supported many of the other programs that we have here at the
Huntsville center. I have been the chief of safety
for a little over two years.
Today I was asked to discuss the mishap
reporting requirement.
As required by the Corps of Engineers.
About the next 45 minutes I will try to
discuss mishap reporting's in accordance with
USACE requiring's. I will talk about the lines you need to adhere
to and several lessons learned from recent Huntsville accidents
to include three board of investigations
from serious accidents and three mishaps that occurred
on ordinance and explosive sites. I will talk about
how we report lessons learned. I will conclude with a summary of
HNC contractor accidents to give you a summary of what has happened.
Trying to get used to changing the slides. I apologize for the
rough start here.
Most importantly all mishaps for the Corps of Engineers are reportable.
It is the format and the timeline that change. That really depends
on the severity of the mishap. The information that I will talk about
today comes from two references you should remember. You guys all
probably know EM three 11. Right now we are under the one that was
dated November 2014. If you go to section 01 D, that is where most
of the mishap reporting requirements come from.
Section 1 talks about the requirements for training and what kind of awareness
training each individual needs to have. I will talk about that in
a few minutes. We have the engineering regulation ER 385-1-99. That is
the accident and investigation reporting regulation.
The latest version is in 2010. It still has good information that
you should look at.
Before I get too much further into the actual reported requirements
I want to highlight what some of the training requirements are for
mishap reporting and investigation pending both of these
documents. If you look in section 3.2 of the engineering regulation
it discusses why to investigate and report and what the training
requirements are for supervisors and the flight safety and health
officer. If you go to section 3-4. property damage as
the result of vandalism and riots and civil disorders or something
like an arson event. Or if your property damage that occurs
after property has been [ indiscernible ]. That is nonreportable. If you
are not sure when you are on the site the ER is a great document
to go to the talks about different things that occur. Accidents are
always real clearcut. If you go to appendix C it talks about reporting
requirements per 1904. I recommend going to the OSHA reporting requirements
on that. This ER hasn't been updated since 2010.
Both references discuss that employee supervisors and the site safety
and health officers are all required for some degree of training for
accident investigation and reporting.
It is important this is done upfront.
So that everybody knows what they are required to do in the unfortunate
event that an accident does occur.
Indoctrination training it is required to include a discussion for both
employee and supervisor responsibilities.
For reporting and for the investigations.
Per the EM the person conducting the training for the induction nation
-- they need to know what the requirements
are and how they train the supervisors and the employees on these
requirements. They need to know what the
usage requirements are and the correct forms that are required and where
they are located. What the timelines are for reporting and who to report
the information to. Depending on the type of accident that occurs.
And be trained in the proper way to investigate an accident. A lot
of times we get accident reports from
three 394's that don't give us the complete information that we
need for our statistics and for our lessons learned. The trainer
needs to know the accident investigation shall
be recorded on the three 394. For the Huntsville center we have a
revision. There are other revisions out there but we like to see it
on revision 2. This form has a specific field we want to complete the information
on that. The contractor must complete a planning Larry
-- preliminary act of notification.
For the Huntsville center are GDA
that is referred to in the EM 3511 is the contracting
officer. I recommend you look in your scope to see who
that is.
If you don't know it's a good idea to send it to the
KO and to the p.m. and the safety representative. If you
know who all three of those are.
Accidents in the Corps of Engineers
and for other purposes are investigated for lessons learned.
You need to share with all workers and contractors to help ensure similar
acts do not occur. We need to make sure we have the proper information
on all of those forms. This slide talks about the mishap. What is
the definition of a mishap.
It's pretty simple. Like I said in the incident that happens,
during the course of work being performed has to be reported in
some cases. The ones I will talk about today are recordable, high
hazard, first aid cases, and near misses. Those all have a type of
reporting that has to be done and timelines that have to be met.
Here is the definition of reportable.
If you look at the ER talks about a recordable meets any of
the classes capital letter a- E.
The most important thing on this line,
these are the type of accidents that we put in our
dart [ indiscernible ] that we have to give up to headquarters.
What differentiates these, they each have a dollar
amount. You have to start at a threshold of $5000 per class. Then you go
up as you go up.
You can read what is in red. If you look at a class B, those are
recordable.
You have to do the 3394. The class C means the threshold of the board
of investigation. There are more requirements that we have to do
given that. That's when the difference is there.
For the Huntsville center, in accordance with ER three
385-1- --
they have different ways for you to notify them. This is the
Huntsville center. It gives them the preliminary information they
need to start accident process.
You can find this worksheet on our safety office Internet. I have the
link there at the bottom of this slide.
During the development of your actual prevention plan it's important
that you determine what method of notification is for whatever district
you are working for. And ensure that any [ indiscernible ], that
you define not. A lot of times we do not get this
information. We do not get it in a timely matter.
It is important we have this. There are
timelines associated with it. For information we are in
the process of updating our 3394.
When it is finalized it is in the format
that it is now. It will be a
universal form for all mishap reporting. To
include preliminary information When you look at the preliminary
notification form and has some
information like date of birth. If it's not
blanked out it should be.
Those kind of things don't need to be on there.
The form hasn't been updated yet.
Any questions on that should be directed to your contract. We
will get that contract.
Here is the version [ indiscernible ] for the 3394.
I know this sounds pretty simplistic.
It's important that you fill it out completely and accurately. Attach
all the information that needs to be attached. The form provides more
specific information than the pin --
PAN we just talked about
we have to send it back. Again
this is what we use for our accident statistics. Information is used
to determine what we need to change. If we don't have accurate information
it is hard to make informed decisions
based on stuff we don't have good information on.
It's important that this form is filled out completely and accurately.
The next slide, I just took a screenshot of the back side of C. Some of the
things I see all the time that are being filled out, if you look on
the top right, do you have an AHA for the job?
Yes, attach a copy but they don't attach a copy. If the answer is
no, should there have been one?
You should say part of the action is taken
as we completed one. Sometimes I can have an AHA for every little
thing on site.
Was a person trained in the activity?
Then you talk about that. Fill it out. If it was yes you go to be
and then see. These are things we do not get what we
get our 3394's. It takes time to go back and forth with the contractor
to get this information.
In 13 the meat of it is what is a direct
cause of the indirect cause? What are you doing to eliminate the hazard
from happening again? I try to bring this up.
We still have issues with this.
There is the definition of both of those on there. We don't
need any PII.
The form hasn't on there.
You are required to protect your employees PII and PHI.
Try not to send this to us. We don't need that information.
A lot of times we do not get the accident report in
a timely manner. If you look at ER 351 -- 99
we have 45 days to get all of the information gathered into
have it signed. You would think that would be simple and there should
not be a problem with that. We generally do not meet that timeline. The Huntsville
center has done a work instruction where
we required a little bit sooner than that. If you look on the top
line you see from the time the mishap occurs we have a requirement
to get it done within 12 days.
To get to the Huntsville center.
If you look down box on the bottom it says
creates the sign. For the Huntsville center we do it a little bit differently.
On line 15 -- that the corporate safety has
looked at it and done quality control on that before they send it forward.
We have four times that it has to go through.
It has to go to the chief of safety up to the commander. That
takes a while to get done. That's why the Huntsville center -- one
of the reasons they wanted sooner than 45 days. The 45 days by regulation
is to have it signed.
What you have to do is some of the reporting requirements. When you
have a mishap if it is a class C or lower
you have 24 hours to notify the GDA. From there,
if you have a high hazard which we will
talk about in a few minutes or a class a or class B ask you need
to do the immediate notification.
I encourage you to pick up the phone and call him back it up with an
email.
Sometimes we will get the contractor to send it to the p.m. I recommend
you send it to the p.m. the KO and the safety. Just so they can get
it. Sometimes an accident occurs on a weekend or a holiday or when
the TM isn't there. It's good to know because there are reporting
requirements we have to go to the commander to let them know. The
more people you can let know the better off you are. Once that immediate
notification is done, we need that within seven days.
We need the PAN worksheet. That gives us enough information to
start our [ indiscernible ] document. After
that [ indiscernible ] between the time
you submit the PAN to get the 3394 to your GDA
in Huntsville center.
We try to get it to not take any longer than five
days. We want to know you are looking into the accident while it is still
fresh and on your mind. To figure out the direct cause and how you
will control it. It's better to get that done. It gives us a little
bit of time to send it back and forth if we need to before we set
it up for signature. The timeline is important to get done. Here is
the definition of a class a or class B accident. These require immediate
notifications to the Huntsville center. Or to any
-- wherever your district is. To the KO into
the p.m. It's important this is done. This is a severe accident.
We have steps that need to be done after this. If you have an accident
where you have a fatality or a permanent partial disability, or three more
people go to the hospital, or you have an accident with a high dollar
amount for property damage, that would be a class a --
A or class B.
I would encourage you to train that if it is a severe accident
you want to treat it as a class A
or class B.
After it has settled down
you need to preserve the scene.
It should not be disturbed so we can do an accident investigation.
After all the emergency measures have been taken
care of preserve the site and secure it.
We will probably have to do an investigation. Which is a formal
board that we have to get a general officer
to sign off on. We will start investigating that with a panel. Then it talks
about any of these requirements, this is just
a forum of engineers. You have other OSHA requirements to notify
also. You should be aware of that.
Just to summarize in
another format of what I have tried to say. If you look at the different
classes, these are recordable accidents.
If you have an A or BU do any -- immediate notification.
You do the PAN within seven days.
Then there will be a BOI. We have 45 days to
get that done. That is the Corps of Engineers investigation. If you
go -- get a C and a D, you have 24 hours
to notify us. Then you have seven days to get the PAN in. There will
not be a BOI. You have 45 days per regulation.
If you go to section 01 D 05 311
you will see that they have in high hazard activities. They
want to know whether or not there was an injury or property
damage. If any of these occur in these high hazard activities there
is required to be immediate notification to whatever your POC is. I have
Huntsville center. I apologize for that. We are required by regulation
to give written investigation to headquarters
within 10 days. At the Huntsville center
we will get that verbal notification from a
contractor and then we will decide with them whether we will investigate
it or they are going to investigate it. At some point that report will
have to go up to headquarters. That is something
-- that a lot of contractors are not aware of. For the Huntsville
center it depends on the severity of the accident. Whether we will
asked the contractor to do a detailed investigation and send the information
to us. Either way the contractor is required to notify the GDA day
-- within 24 hours of the accident. And to do
an investigation. Huntsville center is required to submit it to headquarters
within 10 days. We need a little bit of time in there to do the report.
Before we go further on to headquarters. The other one I want
to highlight is near misses. If you going to
EM 3511 all near misses are required to be reported.
Given a shift in time or position damage or injury may have occurred.
For example if you have a crane [ indiscernible ] and nearly misses
a parked car or if the worker falls off of a scaffolding but is not
his -- injured those would be near misses.
Each district has a different form to report their Mrs.
Huntsville's near miss form is located on the safety officer
site. I will show you that in a few minutes. It's important that
you report near misses.
It is imperative that as a
community of practices that all the contractors provide this information
to us so we can have some statistics on this and send it out.
I encourage you to do that. It is a requirement in the EM 3511.
Another one, first aid cases I personally
at the Huntsville center don't want to see all your first aid treatment.
It is required in the EM 3511. Treatments will be maintained and submitted
to the GDA upon request. You should be keeping track of that. That is
specific. You to talk about the employee's name and the job title.
You should be accumulating a list of that. It should be analyzed by
the SS [NULL] per the EM.
If I come out on site or one of my
staff comes out on-site they may want to look at that to see what
is going on. Other than that I don't need to see the first aid cases
submitted every time. Just be kept on file per the EM. Just to summarize,
the purpose of investigating the mishap is
to learn from the accident and to share information.
And two Neil Feist, HGL regulation updates. One thing I have done in
the two years I have been here, depending on the severity of the
accident or if I have a reoccurring type of accident
I am asking my staff to develop lessons learned
for contractor mishaps. We have a small library of lessons learned.
On the agency Internet site. There is a location there you can go and
look at that. It is important.
We are requiring you to give us this information. That way we have
some kind of way to share this information and you can learn from what went
on somewhere else. Here is the website.
It is the Internet site. If you should go to our leg
-- regular home page.
The right-hand side shows my list of lessons learned that I have developed
right now. On the left-hand side he gives you a list of information.
If you want to know without having to search for it.
You can go to the safety regulation site. It also goes into the investigations
for the Department of Army 380 540.
Then you go down to accident reporting. These are the slide specific
stuff. Not that we are talking about it here today.
These worksheets can be found here. We try to keep the
website updated. As much as possible.
It's usually pretty current information that you can find here.
Now for the remainder of the time I want to go into a little bit of
sharing information on some
things that happened. I will discuss
three accidents that occurred that required a board of investigation.
Two were from an ordinance at an explosive site. One was on a maintenance
and service project that we had.
I feel like the lessons learned could roll over to a OE site pretty
easily. I will not spend a lot of time on these. I want to highlight
what occurred, and bring up a few of the lessons learned that
we got from them. The first one was a fatality. It was a
subcontractor employee that was working on a maintenance and service
contracts that we have. He was investigating or troubleshooting
elevator doors. For some reason they were not working. He was trying
to figure out what was going on.
He was taking his meter to see what was going on. He had stopped the
elevator from going up and down.
He was inside trying to check on what was going on. By himself, actually
he did not have any PPE that he should have been wearing for the
job. He had a metal flashlight that was in his mouth. He had on
a metal watch. He was going to check 120 volt. In the end it was
a fatality. 120 volts.
Based on the autopsy they don't know the traveling of how the electricity
traveled. It was enough to get him.
Basically what happened was he wasn't wearing the required [ indiscernible ]
flash for 120 volt. He had on metal that he shouldn't have had
on. Again AHA's weren't not required.
I think everybody will say I have
probably worked on 120 volt. Remember it's not the voltage it's the current
that can kill you.
The next one, we had a fatality. A subcontractor
was detonating a 40 millimeter
projected grenade. They were assisting and some kind of a clearance. And
excavating the anomalies.
They were probing and excavating. The project
was going on for a long period of time. It was hot and demanding.
What actually happened was [ indiscernible ] cause the death
of the employee. The direct cause was human error.
Some of the contributing factors or the indirect causes or complacency,
probably exertion due to physical demands. They were not getting enough
brakes. That is what the BOI found.
They needed to increase personnel change out and improve training
for that. That was a fatality on site.
On one of our chemical warfare material
sites we were doing a project that was actually low probability.
If any of you have done CWM.
There still could be chemical agent in the soil. They were excavating
soil and not wearing any kind of respirator. Or they did not have
dermal protection.
I feel like and I was not on the board of investigation
for this, but I feel like there was some complacency. They were
using the monitoring for CWM. They were not getting any detection on
this. They felt like everything was okay. Actually what was happening
was the workers were encountering odors. They were not telling their
supervisors. The minicamps were ringing off. They did not get trained
they should let them know.
They continue to work when the odor was going on. In the end three
of them became sick and were transported to the hospital. The BOI could not
determine what they were exposed to. They eliminated CWM. There
are other things out there that can make you sick. You need to make
sure that you have the proper PPE and all
the right controls for the project that is going on. Make sure any
time you dig a hole, if workers noticed an
odor that is unusual that they stop working let their supervisors know
so you can determine the best path forward on that one.
Now I will discuss a couple of mishaps. These are not the severity
of the BOI's.
It's a mixture of things that have happened recently.
First one we had a mishap on a site
a contractor was stung by approximately 26 times by Yellowjackets while
he was performing a surface sweep in a remote
area. At first the employee was stable but then the conditions worsened.
I guess it took approximately 50 minutes to get the employee back
to the office. Were first aid procedures were applied. EMS arrived shortly
after at the office and gave the employee some medicine and some
steroids. Within four hours he was released to return to work. When
you are in a very remote area, just
a reminder that remote areas require first aid attendance in a kit.
When medical services are not accessible within five minutes
of a work location and there are two or more employees
at the location at least two or more employees shall be qualified
to administer first aid and CPR.
We are checking to make sure you have
a first-aid attendant for CPR. We do not know always when we are reviewing
this.
If you have two of those and they are sitting back at the field trailer
and you have two were threes -- or three remote sites you want
to make sure they are complying with the requirements. Some other
things that were found, somebody
recommended they carry wasp spray at all times.
And that the AHA did not identify that. Any AHA that
you submit to the Huntsville Center may not identify all
of the steps. You may find other hazards. It is a living document.
If you know there is another hazard in their you should make sure that
you identify that in your AHA.
This is for the workers. The last line of defense. They should be
reviewing this and saying that is what I have to have on-site.
The second mishap that I will talk about is involving you TV.
A project truck was rear ended.
While the pair of vehicles was turning onto the work
compound near the end of the work shift. The collision caused damage
to both vehicles and resulted a minor injury to the UV driver.
It was late afternoon and there was some glare. There was unnecessarily
-- unnecessary vehicle traffic and following distance. It seemed like
the police escort might have compounded the issue. The escort policy
added vehicle traffic to the site. You
might just rethink some things.
It was a good idea.
What we found was these were the outcomes.
The operator did have first aid treatment.
There was damage to the you PV and the truck.
In this case we did not get the report. We found out about
it later. It's very important that you do notify us. The damage to
the vehicle was more than the threshold that was required.
What we found was that the operator did
not have formal training. If you look at
section 18 a every person operating a
UPV shall be qualified and designated by the employer to operate
such equipment. That wasn't done.
That was a process they were working on changing. And that the AHA did
not address that. They went back and revisited that. The last mishap
I want to talk about was loss of consciousness.
Two coworkers were talking
and somebody lost consciousness and hit their head on the table.
Had a laceration to their face and then was hospitalized.
The L'Anse of consciousness was determined
to be to a health condition. Is this a reportable incident? It is
reportable. It isn't recordable.
Because it was a pre-existing condition. In there it talks about
where you can find that reference.
That was something that happened from a pre-existing condition.
In summary, remember
that both the EM and the AR have training requirements for the supervisors
and safety health officers employees on accident reporting investigations.
And that the purpose of accident reporting is to gather information
to prevent similar access from reoccurring.
We have a collection of lessons learned on
the Internet to view. We use the statistics to change the EM which
is currently up for revision. If we get that information on the accident
form we have more information to make
decisions. I encourage you to fill them out as thoroughly and completely
as possible. Not only for good information, but it is required in the EM.
There are timelines associated with the mishaps I went over today.
If you're not sure what they are you can read the EM section 1. It
talks about a preclear.
If you are not sure I would recommend you contact
your safety office POC for that.
Timeliness is very important in the reporting.
This slide did not turn out. What I was trying to show here was,
I had a list of all of our
accents -- accidents that have occurred.
What I was trying to show here was our number one mishap for FY 18
was cut.
I think we had seven out of 29 if I remember right.
We get lacerations to the thumb, leg and the face and
to most body parts. We are finding it is due to improper use or placement
of a tool. Or not using the proper PPE. Our second injury that occurs
is a fall from the same level. When we look at that
we are having uncapped work areas or environmental called -- causes.
The other thing I wanted to point out which is important to point
out is that we have had to heat stress cases
in the Huntsville Center in the FY 18. It is important to remember
you have to have a heat stress program that you implement in the field.
Whether you are putting someone in the [ indiscernible ]. At some
point you're required to trigger that heat stress.
I know for chemical warfare material sites they have programs and it
is very regimented. I'm not sure for conventional. If you don't you
should have that.
>> I Should have the image up. Can you see it on the screen?
>> No ma'am. It came up for a second.
>> We Do have a temporary placement.
The audience can see it.
The screen is up there. When you're ready to
move on I will take down this temporary fix.
>> I Will try to keep talking.
If you notice on the bottom left the one thing I wanted
to point out was that HNC has experienced more contractor
accidents.
The EM clearly discusses that the prime is responsible for
all workers on site. I want to remind you guys as prime contractors watch
out for your subcontractors. If they have an accident that comes
back up, it is important that you are managing
those subs as much as your own workers.
We don't want anyone to get hurt.
Finally on the top right you
have the safety triangle.
I wanted to point that out. We have had two fatalities.
29 injuries recordable.
And maybe six near misses on that triangle. If you go back to safety,
Mr. Heinrich developed a concept on his safety
triangle. He theorized for every fatality there were 29 injuries
and 300 near misses. The key to
avoiding injuries and fatalities was to capture and correct at the
near miss stage. If we were to have two fatalities
we should have reported nearly 600 misses reported. I think we
have had six. Near misses our lead indicators.
It's not only reported by the EM but it is important for us to trend
that. I just encourage you all to send out your
near misses. The next presentation, there is a difference
based on near misses. It's important these are done.
So we can stop the severe accidents from happening.
In summary,
USACE requires that all mishaps are reported. From serious accidents
to a first aid case. You guys are required to submit a thorough timeline
complete investigation. Which -- all the mishaps have reporting forms
and timelines. They are spelled out in the EM or the ER.
In addition to these, the regulations require training
to a certain level.
Whether you are a supervisor or an employee. It's very important
that you should go to section 1 of the EM and read through that.
Where you have a hard and fast safety rules and regulations
from two on through the rest of the EM. That's the framework for
your program on a Corps of Engineers site. And how you are supposed to
manage it. It's important that you know with those requirements are.
Finally, USACE requires near face -- Mrs. B reported. We are not
seeing that to date.
We are not seeing the misses we expect to see.
I just want to say it is very important
that you do that.
Thank you. I hope you got something out of this today.
That concludes my presentation.
>> Good job. Hang on for second we have a couple
questions. The first question is, is ER
35 199 being revised? When can we expect
it to be published?
>> To my knowledge there is some planning for it to be revised. I
do not know if they've gotten far on that. I believe the first thing
you will see is the new 3394. Once that's out they will start working
on 355-1 -99.
>> If you've an accident with multiple people involved do need to fill
out a separate [ indiscernible ]?
The attachment question,
>> There needs to be one for each one. There is certain information
for each. And needs to all be tied back.
>> The other question, is says differs from the
OSHA definition.
OSHA says one or more to the hospital.
I do not see the question in there.
That is all we have for questions. We will
press on to the next presentation.
The next presentation is by Neil Feist, HGL.
His presentation is near miss -- misses.
>> I have worked in the industry for
over 25 years.
What I am going to talk about is one particular near miss that HDL
had on a Huntsville project.
We considered it a pretty serious one.
This slide, the definition
of a near miss.
Kellie talked about near miss ratios.
This is all per OSHA.
A previous employer I had quote us for near
misses. Every office had a certain quota that they had
to meet at each month. I think sometimes you end up with
near miss reports that are not relevant.
As Kelly said reporting them are important.
They need to meet the definition to be relevant.
Onto the project, it was an RFS.
This range -- Jane
can you throw the green arrow out for me. The range
they used as an OD to dispose of code nature
-- it had a limit of 1000 pounds per shot. Here is the operational
area. This line here is the exclusion zone.
That is a little background on the site.
We did site preparation.
All during the fieldwork we coordinated closely with the
installation and the operational range. All of our fieldwork
was closely coordinated. So the range was an active.
Normally we would try to do that during the intrusive operations.
There was some delays.
We went out there a week or so after.
The next slide here.
The incident that occurred, the project team scheduled two
days at the installation.
A Monday and a Tuesday.
They checked in with range control.
They had a verbal conversation with them. They verified they would be
on site for both days. And they informed our team there was no demolition
activities scheduled for either of those days. The primary reason
for checking in was to get the radio. They were
issued the radio.
The sample locations are these locations. You can see
some are fairly close.
At the end of the first day the team went out and did their sampling.
At the end of the day around 5:15 PM there was no one to check out
West. They went back to the hotel.
On day two they arrived around 715
and there was no one in that range control. The range was an active.
They went on and started conducting their
sample. About 915 on day two
the range radio started indicating there was low battery. They stopped
what they were doing and wanted to change out the
battery of the radio. Once they got their gear loaded
-- [ indiscernible ].
This time the radio had completely died. The team drove away,
I imagine rather quickly.
They got themselves to a location within
the site and called the environmental office
who was our client client.
The environmental office called via phone.
By that time for detonations had occurred. Was essentially all the
detonations. They gave our folks a verbal that was all
clear.
When they got to range control it was determined our team was
[ indiscernible ].
Apparently the installation had two different depths of radios.
They were in the process of converting from analog to digital.
The range did not follow their procedures
for checking their exclusion zones.
One was which to drive the perimeter roads. Our vehicle was
parked on a primary perimeter road.
They did not broadcast or announce the demolition operation.
At least not on our radio.
When our teams got back down there it was obvious to them
just the fact they conducted demolition operations.
From the reporting perspective one thing I will mention, I wasn't aware
that agency
-- HNC had a near miss form.
They immediately contacted the environmental office.
RPM contacted the Huntsville p.m.
And didn't did reporting within the
company.
The iOS 10 was assigned to that project, he was busy with another
project.
I got a hold of Miss Tina Johnson and she tracked him down. We prepared
the near miss report.
And submitted it.
The Tina and Kellie Williams, USACE HNC set
up a meeting with us.
We had more than one meeting. We talked and discussed why
we thought it happened.
What happened was obvious. The demolition [ indiscernible ] was conducted
wrong.
They had no formal check in and check out procedure.
If they did have one they did not follow it. Even during
the majority of our field operation there was
really no daily check-in or checkout.
Our safety guide would go by there and they would not be
there in the morning.
[ indiscernible ] this is the military
sports services group.
One of the cardinal rules is to make sure
your exclusion zone is clear.
The lessons learned, for us,
not in this particular range has procedures. While
we do not think our team did anything wrong there are
things they could have done better.
One of those -- every time we enter a range,
in particular if there is no formal procedures.
We should have taken additional steps.
To conduct radio checks. Even if they are not required. Check
in every day with range control.
If they're not there check in with the POC. Internally we have added
requirements to our readiness review.
We worked on a lot of active ranges.
Most of those have strict procedures.
Internally we are requiring our staff, if they
are working near range that they will establish
those check in and check out procedures.
Or follow the existing ones.
That's it. Short and sweet.
>> We Have some questions that have popped up. A couple of
these are for Kellie.
How do we deal with HEPA requirements if we are putting names on the reports?
>> The name can be on the accident report. We just don't need any of
the HEPA requirements.
I don't need any of the PII or PHI associated with that.
>> Okay.
That is all the questions we have.
The next speaker we are going to have
is Betina Johnson, USACE HNC.
She wants to talk about the agency a little bit.
>> I And the division chief over
the military munition design center here at the Huntsville center. We
also have four other design center teams within the core of engineers.
Currently that is Ralph Campbell.
He is the design chief for the chemical warfare design center here in Huntsville.
Mike Rodgers who is the Baltimore design center chief,
and then we also have the Omaha design center chief.
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>> Thank you.
I'm running into some technical issues. I see the clock counting
down at the bottom.
That concludes our presentation.
We are looking to do our next webinar mid to late
February. That would be on the new clap toolkit that is
coming out.
That will be a really outstanding one. Some of the questions I don't
see sorry about some of the technical
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If there's any final questions you have typed them in.
Email those to me and I can get them to the presenter. We can get
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With that I will conclude this webinar.
If there's anything you have Jean?
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