Roles and Responsibilities

Question 1

Who provides policy, guidance, direction, and oversight of all matters pertaining to the formulation, review, and execution of plans, policies, programs, and budgets relative to mishap prevention and ESOH programs?

Answer 1

The Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Environment, and Energy (SAF/IE).

Question 2

Who coordinates guidance and federal aquisition regulations involving AFOSH matters with AF/SE, SAF/IE and AF/SG?

Answer 2

The Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition (SAF/AQ).

Question 3

Who determines the process for RAC funding visibility, priority, and implementation procedures for funding the abatement of hazards?

Answer 3

The Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management and Comptroller (SAF/FM).

Question 4

Who ensures AF occupation and environmental health policies meet or exceed CFRs or other applicable requirements?

Answer 4

The Air Force Surgeon General (AF/SG).

Question 5

Who ensures AF procedures for storing, handling, using, and transporting hazardous materials and disposing of wastes comply with transportation regulations?

Answer 5

The Deputy Chief of Staff Logistics, Engineering, and Force Protection (AF/A4).

Question 6

Who develops policies on personnel matters related to AFOSH and establishes a process through which Airmen are evaluated on Safety and Occupational Health (SOH) duties and responsibilities?

Answer 6

The Deputy Chief of Staff, Manpower Personnel and Services (AF/A1).

Question 7

Who provides direction and guidance to ensure test organizations assess safety standards and hazards prior to testing?

Answer 7

The Headquarters, Air Force Directorate of Test and Evaluation (AF/TE).

Question 8

Who develops policy and guidance for use and management of AF-operated operational ranges?

Answer 8

The Deputy Chief of Staff of Operations (AF/A3).

Question 9

Who is the OPR for all AF safety programs and directs implementation of the AF Mishap Prevention Program?

Answer 9

The Air Force Chief of Safety (AF/SE).

Question 10

Who develops, implements, oversees and funds AF Mishap Prevention Programs?

Answer 10

The Air Force Safety Center (AFSEC).

Question 11

Who developes safety programs, policies, goals and objectives, and establishes guidelines to support and assess effectiveness of the mishap prevention program?

Answer 11

The Air Force Safety Center (AFSEC).

Question 12

Who serves as the approving authority for all safety variances and exemptions with the AF?

Answer 12

The Air Force Safety Center (AFSEC).

Question 13

Who ensures that programs within their portfolios are integrating ESOH concerns in to the overall systems engineering process using the system safety methodology in Military Standard (MIL-STD)?

Answer 13

Progam Executive Officers (PEOs).

Question 14

Who ensures procedures are developed to identify command mishap trends and direct actions and resources in order to establish goals and objectives to reverse identified adverse trends?

Answer 14

MAJCOM/DRU/FOA/Numbered Air Force (NAF)/Center Commanders/Directors.

Question 15

Who evaluates management, implementation, and effectiveness of the AF Mishap Prevention Program within their command and represents the cross-functional interest of their command during applicable councils, committees, and meetings?

Answer 15

MAJCOM/DRU/FAO/NAF/Center Safety Staffs.

Question 16

Who coordinates, facilitates, develops, and provides safety education and training and required funding to assist command safety personnel in meeting their CEU requirements, and reviews all Class A and B mishaps for thoroughness and accuracy?

Answer 16

MAJCOM/DRU/FAO/NAF/Center Safety Staffs.

Question 17

Who develops policy and provides guidance on applying System Safety management and engineering, and maintains a master hazard abatement program for centrally procured systems and equipment applied to end products?

Answer 17

Air Force Material Command (AFMC) and the United States Space Force (USSF).

Question 18

Who ensures AFMC/SES forwards the AFSEC/SEFE not later than 1 November in ever even-numbered year, an update to the USAF Aviation Safety Equipment Database?

Answer 18

Air Force Material Command (AFMC).

Question 19

Who ensures launch and on-orbit hazards are identified?

Answer 19

Air Force Space Command (AFSPC).

Question 20

Who reviews new and revised technical training course specialty and job qualification training objectives, and develops and oversees safety training guidance?

Answer 20

Air Education and Training Command (AETC).

Question 21

Who must document and report the status of all High-Risks and Serious-Risks as part of their risk management?

Answer 21

Program Offices/Managers.

Question 22

Who shall provide safety releases containing all identified hazards, implemented mitigation measures, and accepted risks to developmental and operational testers?

Answer 22

Program Managers.

Question 23

Who monitors operational experience, mission changes, environmental effects, or system modifications to identify and correct hazards through the life cycle of a system or facility?

Answer 23

System Safety Managers (SSM) and System Safety Engineers (SSE).

Question 24

Who annually reports RM policies, accepted risks and those that require PEO or higher action for their program to the Center System Safety Manager?

Answer 24

System Safety Managers (SSM) and System Safety Engineers (SSE).

Question 25

Who must conduct annual meetings with all center system safety personnel, coordinate the safety portion of the PESHE, and provide annual overviews to the MAJCOM/SE and AF/SE on safety RM policies?

Answer 25

The Center System Safety Manager (CSSM).

Question 26

Who will review and validate program office and airworthiness board risk assessments for hazards during the development and operational test and evaluation phases, and provide a list of test hazards and mitigating actions?

Answer 26

Test Organizations.

Question 27

Who directs implementation of the base mishap prevention program, and identifies continued improvement opportunities, goals and objectives via the Annual Program Management Review (APMR)?

Answer 27

The Installation Commander.

Question 28

Who ensures commanders, functional managers, and requirements generators work with their responsible contracting and safety office to provide a contractor safety and health plan?

Answer 28

The Installation Commander.

Question 29

Who promotes a "Just Culture" which provides Airmen an environment where they can report hazards, near misses, work-related injuries, and illnesses without fear of reprisal?

Answer 29

The Installation Commander.

Question 30

Who oversees implementation of the mishap prevention program?

Answer 30

The Installation Safety Office.

Question 31

What elements should the Installation Emergency Management Plan include?

Answer 31

1. Disaster Response. 2. HAZMAT Response. 3. Response to Severe Weather. 4. Crash Recovery Plans. 5. Notifying and convening investigation boards. 6. Procedures and training for extracting crewmembers.

Question 32

Who directs the implementation and provides resources to support the installation contracting role within the mishap prevention program?

Answer 32

The Installation Contracting Office.

Question 33

Who ensures timely notification to the installation safety office, or other safety office(s) per support agreements, for any injury producing events that occured to military members, and DoD civilians on-duty?

Answer 33

The Installation Medical Wing/Group Commanders.

Question 34

What is the minimum medical information to be released following a mishap that involved an injury to a military member or an on-duty DoD civilian?

Answer 34

1. Name of the injured individual. 2. Organization. 3. Date of injury. 4. Date of treatment. 5. Diagnosis of injury, a brief description of the nature of the injury. 6. Severity of injury (GTFA, quarters, and any hospitalization that might have occurred).

Question 35

Who provides oversight for the occupational health program and ensures medically appropriate risk assessment and medical surveillance activities are conducted?

Answer 35

The Chief of Aerospace Medicine (SGP) or Occupation Medicine physician.

Question 36

Who maintains a list of flight surgeons who are potential medical officers on ISBs or SIBs, and ensures they, along with Psychologists, Aerospace and Operational Physiologists, and Aerospace and Operational Physiology Technicians are trained annually on the basics of mishap investigation and privileged safety information?

Answer 36

The Chief of Aerospace Medicine (SGP) or Occupation Medicine physician.

Question 37

Who directs implementation and provides resources to support the installation medical role within the mishap prevention program, and provides human performance and human factors analysis on identified hazards?

Answer 37

Flight Surgeons/Aerospace and Operational Physiologists (AOP)/Aerospace and Operational Physiologists Technicians.

Question 38

Who manages the occupational and environmental health surveillance programs, identifies health-related deficiencies, and assigns health-related RACs?

Answer 38

Bioenvironmental Engineering (BE).

Question 39

Who provides radiological protection program management as the installation radiation safety officer?

Answer 39

Bioenvironmental Engineering (BE).

Question 40

Who is responsible as the initial point of contact for occupational medical monitoring, and reports and investigates cases of occupational illness?

Answer 40

Public Health.

Question 41

Who will work in conjunction with Flight Surgeons to provide consultant services on human factors investigations and analysis of military aircraft mishaps?

Answer 41

Psychologists who are AMIP, AMIC and ASPM trained, or have completed post-doctoral fellowship in operational psychology.

Question 42

Who provides cost data and status information on hazard abatement actions associated with real property facilities and real property installed equipment, and provides a foundation informational map and facility data for safety offices to apply their unique maps?

Answer 42

The Installation Civil Engineer.

Question 43

Who provides the CoS and/or OSM a copy of the Security Forces blotter entries involving injury or death resulting from a mishap?

Answer 43

The Installation Security Forces Commander.

Question 44

Who must implement a safety and health program in their unit, and will appoint a primary and alternate USR to assist them?

Answer 44

Commanders other than the installation commander.

Question 45

Who ensures hazard abatement actions needed to control identified hazards and implemented and follow-up actions are completed, with an update every 180 days until the hazard is abated?

Answer 45

Commanders are other than the installation commander.

Question 46

How long must a survey report be posted in the workplace to ensure all employees understand any findings and recommendations that were identified in a occupational or environmental health risk assessment?

Answer 46

10 days.

Question 47

How long must survey reports be maintained on file in the workplace?

Answer 47

2 years.

Question 48

How will Work Center/Shop Supervisors provide safe working conditions?

Answer 48

1. Ensure required guards, interlocks, enclosures, other protective equipment and tools are provided, used, maintained, and inspected daily. 2. Provide safety-related training. 3. Provide proper PPE. 4. Exercise control over job tasks to ensure personnel follow all precautions. 5. Take immediate action to correct any violation of safety rules. 6. Ensure actions are taken to promptly eliminate hazards, and hazards identified on an AF Form 1118 are documented in the JSTO.

Question 49

Who shall provide and document work area specific safety, fire protection and health OJT?

Answer 49

The Work Center/Shop Supervisors.

Question 50

What is an all-encompassing term iused to indicate all Depart of the Air Force members, both uniformed and DoD civilian employees working for the Air Force?

Answer 50

Airmen.

Question 51

Who must comply with all occupational safety and health instructions, apply RM principles both on- and off-duty, identify and report hazardous conditions, and promptly report personal injury, property damages, near-misses and suspected exposure to biological, chemical or nuclear hazardous materials?

Answer 51

Airmen.

Question 52

Who ensures that Air Force fire and safety policies meet, exceed, or receive proper waiver, deviation, or exemption authority as applicable to federal regulatory standards?

Answer 52

The Air Force Civil Engineering Center (AFCEC).

Question 53

Who ensures Air Force guidance meets or exceeds OSHA and other applicable agency requirements?

Answer 53

Headquarters, USAF, The Air Force Judge Advocate (AF/JA), primarily through the Air Force Safety Center Legal Office (AFSEC/JA) and the Air Force Environmental Law and Litigation Division (AF/JAOE).

Question 54

Who ensures a legal representative attends all federal/state official out-briefs and reviews all correspondence to OSHA?

Answer 54

The Installation Legal Office.

Question 55

Who is the designated acquisition individual with responsibility for and authority, to accomplish program objectives for development, production, and sustainment?

Answer 55

The Acquisition and Sustainment Program Managers.

Question 56

Who is responsible for managing the flight safety program for the expeditionary wing?

Answer 56

The Additional Duty Flight Safety Officer.

Question 57

Who is the unit individual responsible for the additional duties that may include explosives safety, missile safety, nuclear safety and directed energy safety?

Answer 57

The Additional Duty Weapons Safety Representative (ADWSR).

Question 58

Who is responsible for organizing and managing the Safety career field?

Answer 58

The Career Field Manager (CFM).

Question 59

Who are Career Safety Professional?

Answer 59

All Air Force enlisted safety career field personnel holding the 1S0 AFSC, and all civilians in the career field GS-0018.

Question 60

WHo manages the commander's safety program, which may include flight, occupational, space, system and weapon safety disciplines?

Answer 60

The Chief of Safety (COS).

Question 61

Who holds the authority and the responsibility to act and lead their units to accomplish the mission?

Answer 61

The Commander.

Question 62

What is the single official within a DoD component that is responsible for all acquisition functions within that component, and serves as the risk decision authority for high risks?

Answer 62

The Component Acquisition Executive (CAE).

Question 63

What is an employee?

Answer 63

A term that applies to all DoD civilian and military personnel and the Department of the Air Force military personnel.

Question 64

Who provides recommendations for training, education and experience requirements for the most critical safety duty positions, and vectors the 1S0 career field?

Answer 64

The Enlisted Development Team (EDT).

Question 65

What are Flight Safety Managers (FSMs)?

Answer 65

Civilians assigned to perform flight safety officer duties.

Question 66

Who is responsible for managing the unit flight safety program for the CoS and the commander?

Answer 66

The Flight Safety Officer (FSO).

Question 67

Who is the designated individual with overall responsibility for a program and has the authority to approve the entry of an acquisition program into the next phase of the acquisition process?

Answer 67

The Milestone Decision Authority (MDA).

Question 68

What are the responisbility of a non-typical safety staff?

Answer 68

They report to their commander/director as they manage the commander's mishap prevention program and are the senior safety advisors within their organization.

Question 69

What does the OSM do?

Answer 69

They manage the occupational safety program for the Director/Chief of Safety and the commander.

Question 70

What is a program manager?

Answer 70

The designated acquisition individual with the responsiblity for and authority to accomplish program objectives for development, production and, sustainment to meet the user's operational needs.

Question 71

What is a safety staff?

Answer 71

Assigned safety professionals that are qualified to perform safety discipline duties and ensure AF units understand and comply with all safety requirements and standards.

Question 72

What is a Satellite Anomaly Resolution Team?

Answer 72

A group established to resolve a spacecraft anomaly with the primary purpose of returning an on-orbit satellite to operations.

Question 73

What is a Service Acquisition Executive?

Answer 73

A single official within a DoD service that is responsible for all acquisition functions within that service.

Question 74

What is a Space Safety Manager?

Answer 74

Personnel assigned to a space mishap prevention or mishap investigation role.

Question 75

What is the primary duty of a Squadron Assigned Flight Safety Officer?

Answer 75

To manage the squadron's internal flight safety program as directed by the squadron commander.

Question 76

What is a supervisor's responsibility?

Answer 76

To ensure assigned members comply with safety guidance and standards, and correct them when they deviate.

Question 77

What is a System Safety Manager?

Answer 77

An individual responsible for the application of engineering and management principles, criteria and techniques throughout all phases of the system lifecycle.

Question 78

What individual is dedicated to the executive management and supervision of the AF Science and Technology portfolio, analogous to a Program Executive Officer?

Answer 78

A Technology Executive Officer (TEO).

Question 79

What is the primary goal of the Space Mission Delta Chief of Mission Safety (CMS)?

Answer 79

To manage a mission-focused space safety program for the Delta Commander (Delta/CC).

Question 80

What is the primary safety responsibility for Space Operations Command (SpOC), and Space training and Readiness Command (STARCOM) Dealt Commanders?

Answer 80

To direct implementation and provide resources for the Delta mishap prevention program.