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| RAAFSAFE practices praised By Rebecca Codey Edition 4907, May 3, 2007 |
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CAF AIRMSHL Geoff Shepherd has urged Air Force members to embrace RAAFSAFE as the single safety system for the organisation – whether in the air or on the ground. “Safety is fundamental in everything we do. It’s part of the way we do business and, frankly, there should be no difference between air safety and ground safety,” AIRMSHL Shepherd said at the recent RAAFSAFE Conference in Canberra. Issues such as fatigue, human factors, open reporting of incidents and fostering a suitable safety culture were relevant across the board. AIRMSHL Shepherd was full of praise for the RAAFSAFE practices already embedded at bases around the country. He said RAAFSAFE audits for 2006 showed improvement in both the level of compliance and system maturity. “I’m very happy with how we are going in a process sense,” he said. “We’ve identified most holes and there is a good feedback loop so that I have clear visibility of what’s happening in the field.” Director Defence Aviation and Air Force Safety, GPCAPT Pete Norford, also spoke of the “good work” within units and highlighted issues such as asbestos, working at heights and heat injury as examples. |