Story By Kristi Britt • NNSY Public Affairs Specialist
Graphics from the Safety Management System Executive Steering Committee
One of the highest priorities at Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) is workforce safety, ensuring all are practicing operational risk management (ORM) so that each individual is able to return home safely. Servicing the nation’s fleet requires talented individuals who are able to assess each job and perform their duties safely and efficiently. With NNSY’s newly launched Safety Management System (SMS), the workforce is taking a ONE TEAM effort in how they approach and increase workplace safety as a whole.
The SMS is identified as a formal top-down and bottom-up approach to ensure we are safe-to-operate and operating safely within a four-pillar framework while producing a safe place, safe people, safe property and material and safe processes and procedures at all levels of command. This provides an avenue to develop, maintain and improve NNSY’s safety and health management program through mentoring, training and progress tracking.
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