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Ms. Connie DeWitte, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Safety,
23 October 2003
To all Navy and Marine Corps Civilian Safety and Occupational Health
Professionals:
"As Safety Civilian Community Leader, my intent is to develop a
safety community that will take the Navy and Marine Corps into the next
generation and carry on for the current workforce. As with the entire
Federal workforce, many Department of the Navy civilian safety
professionals have retired in recent years. Fifty percent of the
Department of the Navy civilian safety workforce will be retirement
eligible in the next 10 years.
Our vision is an organized, networked, and supported Department of the
Navy safety community to attract, develop, and retain the most talented
individuals. Several members of the Naval safety community recently met
with civilian personnel community leaders to begin piloting one aspect of
the total community program – competency identification. As a part of
providing a civilian safety professional with a viable career path, we
need to identify the technical and management/leadership skills and
abilities needed to do the job successfully.
SkillsNet is the tool we are using to do this piece of the program.
Identifying job tasks, skills, and abilities can help both the individual
and the organization. For example, it will enable targeted hiring needs,
as well as training and development requirements. We are excited to have
this opportunity to break ground by piloting SkillsNet for DON civilian
communities and providing feedback for all of DON as to its value."
For more information on SkillsNet and Safety Civilian Community
happenings, visit the Naval Safety Center Safety
Civilian Community Notes page.
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